Answer:
A. They lost support in the 1998 election.
Explanation:
The impeachment process of Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, was initiated on December 19, 1998 by the House of Representatives and brought to trial in the Senate with two counts, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice. . These allegations arose from the sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Clinton by Paula Jones. Clinton was subsequently acquitted of these charges by the Senate on February 12, 1999.
The trial in the United States Senate began after the inauguration of the 106th Congress, in which the Republican Party had 55 senators. A two-thirds vote (67 senators) was required to remove Clinton from his post. Fifty senators voted to remove Clinton on the charge of obstruction of justice and 45 voted to remove him on the charge of perjury; No member of his party, the Democrat voted against the President in any of the charges. Finally Clinton was acquitted of all charges.
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution empowers Congress to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.” Article I, Section 9, further states that “No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.”
Technically he could be considered to be a freedman, because Illinois outlawed slavery. However, the Supreme Court ruled that his time spent in Illinois didn't change the fact that he remained a slave after his master died, so he was not empancipated, and thus was still a slave.
The answer is D: He was a slave.
The first European to reach the cape was the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias 12 March in 1488, who named it the "Cape of Storms" (Cabo das Tormentas).
