I believe the answer is D. Hope this helped!
<span>The Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires each grew wealthy and powerful through their trade of many products, but particularly gold. Because of the the empires were so heavily dependent on trade, various circumstances that diminished the empires' trading capacities, including the death of a leader or the strengthening of a rival empire, eventually led to their decline.</span>
The Sedition Act is legal because its prevent unnecessary utterances from the citizen against the government.
<h3>What is Sedition Act</h3>
According to the Section 2 of the Sedition Act, its states that anyone who is found guilty of statements critical of the government, house of the Congress, President will be subject to fines or imprisonment.
Despite that the first amendment grants "freedom of speech", right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, the Sedition Act is legal because its aims to prevent unnecessary utterances from the citizen against the government
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He was a secretary of war for Roosevelt, professor of law at Yale, was part of the judicial branch, and got stuck in a bathtub :)