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The option that best describes many of the post war's eras writers and their works is pessimistic.
In the wake of the 15th Amendment and Reconstruction, several southern states enacted laws that limited <u><em>Black</em></u> Americans' access to voting.
America should steer clear of foreign alliances when it has liberty to do so
So this term is usually known as laws so absurd that it shouldn't even be a law. Examples are like "One may not eat oatmeal on their porch on Saturdays in ______". The term came from the idea that they shouldn't need to be stated and that they are just morally wrong. Or that one MUST do something because it is morally right to do that.