The United States allows for the protection of individual economic initiative in that C) The government grants patents.
Patents protect the rights of an inventor to be able to profit from their invention for a given period before other people can copy that invention.
By granting this to people, individual initiative is protected because people will invent new things knowing that they will be able to benefit from them.
In conclusion, option C is correct.
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