Politics can be defined as
a. conflicts over the character, membership, and policies of government.
b. the informal, private organizations through which a land and its people are ruled.
c. a hierarchically structured organization that is designed to distribute labor among several different groups of people.
d. a line-and-staff organization that is designed to facilitate control over complex social arrangements.

A. conflicts over the character, membership, and policies of government.

Explanation:

Politics -

It is the set of activities  that is associated with the governance of the country or a particular area . Politics involves the process of decision making applicable to a group of member .

It refers to exercising and achieving positions of governance - It organizes the control over the human community of  a particular state .

Hence according to the question , the correct definition of Politics is ( A ) .

a punishment or the threat of punishment used to enforce conformity. enforcement of norms or shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations. social control. not everyone internalizes all of society's norms, and some people must be motivated by self-fulfillment.

the anti federalists was a movement that was opposed to the creation of a us federal government. although they were not as organized as the federalists, they also had a large group of leaders, especially in state politics.

the statement "now, in a large extended country, it is impossible to have a representation, possessing the sentiments, and of integrity, to declare the minds of the people” represents the concerns of the anti federalists.

they strongly believed that the federalists were representing the interests of aristocratic elements of society at the expense of the majority of ordinary people, who lived in a rural society.

their fear for the creation of a strong federal government and the president’s power of veto in their opinion would create a tyrannical rule that would dominate the people. they defended the importance of restraining the government’s power towards people at any cost.