Answer:
Federalism divides power between multiple vertical layers or levels of government—national, state, county, parish, local, special district–allowing for multiple access points for citizens. The governments, by design at the national and state levels, check and balance one another.
Explanation:
Wang Mang hoped to gather support from the peasantry be introducing reforms. Wang Mang announced the discovery of books written by Confucius, which were supposedly discovered after Confucius’ house, was destroyed more than two hundred years ago. The discovered work supported the same kind of reform that Wang Mang sought.
Wang Mang defended his policies by quoting from the discovered books. Following what was portrayed as Confucian scripture; he decreed a return to the golden times when every man had his measure of land to till, land that in principle belonged to the state. He declared that a family of less than eight that had more than fifteen acres was obligated to distribute the excess amount of land to those who had none.
Answer:
A . Thomas Hobbes.
Explanation:
The ideas of Hobbes, an English philosopher of the Enlightenment, about the natural rights of men such as the rights to life, to be free, to the pursuit of happiness and the notion that men are born equal, are reflected in the Declaration of Independence of 1776. Its main author is Thomas Jefferson, who was well acquainted with those ideas.
