c. to pressure businesses
It was important for the same reason it is now. Just as we now don’t like for the federal government to tell us what to do, This states who declared their independence from the union did not want the federal government to tell them what crops they could raise via whether they could use slave labor or not.
A(n) b)minority group can be defined as a group of people who are singled out and treated unequally because of physical characteristics or cultural practices. Minority group can be best defined as "a term referring to a category of people differentiated from the social majority, i.e. those who hold the majority of positions of social power in a society, and may be defined by law."
The unalienable rights in the Constitution are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
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