Your political cartoon would want to show recognizable delegates of the American colonies -- men such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, etc. The leaders of the Revolution, who sought to establish a new nation, independent of British control, would have been convicted of high treason against the British crown. Under the law of Great Britain, it was considered high treason "if a man do levy war against our Lord the King in his realm" -- which is exactly what the revolutionaries had done. The punishment for high treason, under British law, was to be hanged, drawn and quartered. That's the usual way it's stated, but the actual order of events is drawn, hanged and quartered. A traitor would be tied to a horse and drawn (that is, dragged) to the execution site, where he would be hanged. Before the hanging killed the person, they'd cut him down mutilate him -- things such as disemboweling and castrating the victim. Then they'd quarter him, which meant tying him to four horses which would pull in four different directions to rip the man's body apart.
So, depending on how gruesome and gory you want to draw your political cartoon, there's plenty of awful stuff that might have happened to the delegates of the new nation, the United States, had they failed to win independence from Great Britain.
I’m pretty sure it’s art.
Mesopotamia was the name of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, was located where modern day Iraq is now. If this answer was not clear, feel free to ask! Happy home-working!
The Republican Party strongly supports freedom of religion. They protect the right of religious institutions to not perform marriages that disagree with their belief systems. Republicans do not support giving immigrants a religious test before allowing them to enter the country, despite polls showing that they tend to have more negative views on Muslims than Democrats do. Overall, Republicans are associated with more religious voters, especially evangelical Protestants. Republican Party Platforms tend to mention religion and faith more often than Democratic Party Platforms, and many Republicans are concerned that Democrats are trying to wage a war on religion and religious freedom.
