The Bible, not the Pope was the supreme authority of the Church
<span>He won because of the support of the White Working class. His southern strategy was about appealing to them and their primal racist ways but in such a way that he does not alienate the African-American population. The whites were mostly democratic traditionally so he had to find a way to get them to go Republican.</span>
The common people of France constitutes a complete nation within itself and had no need of the dead weight of the two other orders, the first and second estate of the clergy and aristocracy.