Answer:
characteristics that define a constitution as a "higher law" are:
1. Basic right of life,liberty and property
2.Establishes the responsibility to protect the government to protect these right
3.Place limite on how people use their power like
citizen right,how resources are distribute.
I don't see the underline, but I'm pretty sure that the verb is "has known". That's the present perfect tense.
This is putting down on both of them because the slave owner because it is treating the slave so bad that is killing them.