Which excerpt from President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address best reflects the Union goal of maintaining the United States' democratic government? A. Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
B. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
C. We can not hallow . . . this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it.
D. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether . . . any nation so conceived and so dedicated [to liberty], can long endure.

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