B) the fourteenth amendment's due process clause applies to the states
This would be the executive branch (the president).
<span>In southern France, the Carcassonne gap is an ancient routeway leading from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean lands. Carcassonne is located southeast of Toulouse (about 90km) in the middle of the Massif Central and Pyrenees in France. It is situated in the intersection of the two main routes of traffic: the route that goes from the Massif Central to Spain and the route going from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean lands. </span>
A.
After the Civil War Abraham Lincoln was just the first of many US Presidents to encourage immigration through economic and politic measures (one of them was to give free land to anyone willing to work it). The country needed people to rebuild itself and to settle the west of the continent. And everyone was aware that there is plenty of space.