Question

pope leo XIII of the roman catholic church issued a document called rerum novarum in 1891 that supported
A. Divine right monarchy
B. The revolutionary philosophy of karl marx
C. The policies of social democrats
D. Laissez-faire capitalism

Answer 1

I would go with answer choice C.
An article on the Rerum Novarum says, “Among the remedies it prescribed were the formation of trade unions and the introduction of collective bargaining, particularly as an alternative to state intervention.”
An exert from a document on social democracy says, “social democracy is defined as a policy regime involving a universal welfare state and collective bargaining schemes within the framework of a capitalist economy.”

Both have in common the words "collective bargaining", so unless the other answer choices have more in common than that, I would go with C.