The Great Depression described in one word would be barbaric
Answer: I would advise Augustus to not reduce the program.
Explanation: This would cause and uprising within his city and also compromise his trading with Eqypt and Spain. There could be a compromise whereby the grain could be less reduced, however, to shut it down would be a massive uprising.
Answer:
The Magna Carta
Explanation:
The Magna Carta is a charter that was signed by King John. It was one of the first pieces of a "constitution" that established that no one was above the law and was very progressive in its day. It was an example of liberty in government. This was established in 1215 and influenced "The Bill of Rights" that essentially had the same ideas of human rights.
Answer for the second
'Released from foreign war, we would probably be plunged into all the misery of anarchy and intestine war. Can we suppose that the people of the south, would submit to having the seat of Empire at Philadelphia, or New England; or that the people oppressed by a change of government, contrasting their misery with their former happy state, would not invite Britain to reassume the sovereignty.” — James Chalmers, Plain Truth, 1776
If the one above is the argument, you might consider that the colonists did obtain independence from England. That by itself was something that Chalmers always thought to be impossible without serious repercussions. He used to say that in the case of achieving freedom, America would just end up being attacked and maybe even colonized by some other country. What happened, thought, was that after the revolution, other countries gained respect for America as an opponent and the country was eventually left to be.