Read the excerpt from Pericles’s funeral oration by Thucydides.


Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law; when it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses. No one, so long as he has it in him to be of service to the state, is kept in political obscurity because of poverty.

Which statement best shows how the speaker develops the idea that power is in the hands of the whole people?

He explains that the government is a democracy.
He emphasizes that having wealth is not important.
He gives examples of different positions people can fill.
He shows that all people have the same opportunities.