After the Civil War, Southern state legislatures attempted to restrict the rights of formerly enslaved persons by "passing Black Codes" which segregated blacks from whites.
A government is based on a social contract. The people give up some of their natural rights and in return the government guarantees them something. A social contract is an agreement between an authority and the people in which they come to terms on an agreement. Our government like most is based on this kind of agreement.
A.) Kepler's first law of Planetary motion states "<span>that planetary orbits are elliptical in shape, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse"
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