Answer:
Gothic fiction began as a sophisticated joke. Horace Walpole first applied the word 'Gothic' to a novel in the subtitle – 'A Gothic Story' – of The Castle of Otranto, published in 1764. When he used the word it meant something like 'barbarous', as well as 'deriving from the Middle Ages'
Explanation:
PROS: Our country beleives in everyones freedom and so if we helped them it would be <em>constitutional.</em>
CONS: Some of our resources come from Russia and we would not have access to that if we interfeared. This would probably cause a world war.
A. Smoothest is the answer because superlative means <span>of the highest quality or degree.</span>