The mandate of heaven is the thing that Chinese emperors claim was given to them by their deities. A ruler earns it from the previous emperor when he retires, or when he dies. It could be lost when another dynasty takes over and takes the mandate of heaven.
They are alike insofar that they both deal with with people from minorities and and the discrimination against people who were not of European descent. In Mendez v. Westminster it was about Mexican American people while in the Magnuson Act it was about the Chinese American population and discrimination against them.
Those phrases are found in the Preamble to the Constitution. Hope I helped! Here's the excerpt: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of ..."
Cold weather is the best answer!
a) - Poland was also at war with the Soviet, unlikely it would help
b) Soviet Union has only very limited access to the Mediterranean, which likely was completly cut off at the time anyway
c) they could have it, but China was too busy fighting its own war!
I think the answer is diminishing marginal utility