How did Ralph Waldo Emerson contribute to American political thought?

• A. By authoring the Federalist Papers.
• B. Ralph Waldo Emerson contributed through transcendentalism and emphasis on individual conscience, self-reliance, and anti-conformity shaping democratic ideals.
• C. By leading the abolitionist movement to legal end slavery.
• D. By designing the constitutional framework of the new republic.

Answer: (B)