Answer:
<h3>Voltaire also seems to support empathy and forgiveness towards criminals. </h3>
Explanation:
Voltaire's episode with the King of the Bulgarians suggests that he was a <u>sympathetic and compassionate person</u>. In this episode Voltaire explains how Candide was punished so severely without mercy.
However when the King saw Candide, he forgave him instantly and asked his physicians to treat with the best medicines. It portrays the King's sympathy towards wrong doers or accused criminals.
Similarly, V<u>oltaire also seems to support empathy and forgiveness towards criminals</u>. He does not encourage harsh punishments or biased judgement in the courts.
A peasant is a low income and low notability who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries).
The U.S did not want the Europeans to interfere/colonize our land
D. Allowing Texas into the Union would upset the balance of slave and free states in Congress. Though it soon became a state since Manifest Destiny was a very popular idea at the time.