<em>Answer:</em>
<em>Correct answer choice is : It prevented states from denying citizens equal protection under the law. </em>
<em>Explanation:</em>
<em>The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment speaks citizenship rights and equal security of the laws and was introduced in reply to concerns compared to former slaves following the American Civil War.</em>
Economic - several writers have noted the role of monastics as entrepreneurs.
Social - any good text about medieval monasticism can give you plenty of specific examples of this.
Missionary - some orders were more active in this regard than others.
Cultural - this is perhaps the best known of the work of medieval religious orders and included the creation of the great illuminated manuscripts of the age.
Hammurabi keenly understood that, to achieve this goal, he needed one universal set of laws for the diverse peoples he conquered.
Trial by cold water was when the accused was thrown into a pool of water bound. If he/she sank and drowned he/she was innocent (and conveniently dead). If he/she floated and did not sink, he was taken to have been "rejected" by the water and must necessarily be guilty.
Answer:
Taxes levied on the colonists