Which argument does the speech "conservation as a national duty” best support? a)natural resources should be protected. b)natural resources are not in danger c)natural resources will last forever. d)natural resources are not useful.

The correct answer is A.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1918) was the 26th President of the United States. He always supported and highlighted the importance of environmental protection and of policymaking on that issue. An evidence of his viewpoint could be appreciated in his speech "Conservation as a National Duty”, performed in 1908, where he analyzed the environmental impacts that the industralization process that was taking place in the US in early 20th would generate and encouraged to deal with them accordingly.

in mcculloch v. maryland (1819) the supreme court ruled that congress had implied powers under the necessary and proper clause of article i, section 8 of the constitution to create the second bank of the united states and that the state of maryland lacked the power to tax the bank.

gibbons v. ogden, (1824), was a landmark decision in which the supreme court of the united states held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to congress by the commerce clause of the united states constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation.