The main idea of the passage is that A. civic humanism, in any of its manifestations, cannot entirely explain eighteenth-century political discourse B. eighteenth-century political texts are less likely to reflect a single vocabulary than to combine several vocabularies C. Pocock's linguistic approach, though not applicable to all eighteenth-century political texts, provides a useful model for historians of political theory D. Pocock has more successfully accounted for the nature of political thought in eighteenth-century England than in the eighteenth-century United States E. Pocock's notion of the importance of language in political texts is a logical extension of the insights of historians of literature