The answer to this question is the letter "C" which is "Clergy". The definition of the clergy is the group of people who are selected and devoted to doing religious activity and duties. This is what Martin Luther been doing and that is why the peasant saw him as a champion of the clergy.
Are there multiple options or is this free hand?
Their first dispute is about the fact that Putnam wants Reverend Parris to investigate signs of witchcraft when the respected Reverend Hale from Beverley arrives. Proctor takes exception to Putnam's instruction, feeling that Putnam is overplaying his hand.
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President Lincoln made the use of force necessary because of his prior military actions that show that he already assumed war and has been prepared for it. The South did not like the coercive policy, diplomacy using threats, that the President had sent. Alexander Stephen that Lincoln's provocative actions will not help to stop the war. Instead, it pushed the South to justify it's use of force when necessary.
