The Emancipation Proclamation itself was an executive order. It basically made all southern states free their slaves.
Answer: D is correct.
Explanation: laws of reason are mere fictions. Philosophy of rights is dedicated to this issue but in its very fundaments there are fundamental questions that are still not answered (becase both laws of nature and laws of reason are products of human intellect, i.e. they cannot be experimentally proved. In spite of its fictitious nature, theese laws became one of the pillars of Enlightenment. French philophers, for example, attempted to ground ethics on mathematics which proved to be inviable.
D)The ruling undermined the idea of free labor and supported slave labor" since it stated that slaves could not sue for their freedom in court, even if they were in free states.