Answer:
Protects individuals from the government
Explanation:
Even though James Madison was originally against the Bill of Rights, he saw that to get enough people on board with the Constitution it was necessary. He became one of its strongest advocates and promoted it as a way to protect individuals from government encroachment on their individual rights. And plus the answer below is wrong.
Answer: D is correct.
Explanation: laws of reason are mere fictions. Philosophy of rights is dedicated to this issue but in its very fundaments there are fundamental questions that are still not answered (becase both laws of nature and laws of reason are products of human intellect, i.e. they cannot be experimentally proved. In spite of its fictitious nature, theese laws became one of the pillars of Enlightenment. French philophers, for example, attempted to ground ethics on mathematics which proved to be inviable.
In the pivotal case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Segregation, the Court said, was not discrimination.