LULAC was founded in 1929, in a time where basic civil and human rights were denied for Hispanics in the USA. It is the oldest and most respected Hispanic civil rights organization in the country. Its purpose is to empower their members to create and develop opportunities where they are most needed.
Throughout the 20th century, the LULAC intervened on different segregation and xenophobic cases to obtain equal educational opportunities and full access to political processes for all Hispanics.
Today, they still hold citizen awareness sessions, seminars on language & immigration issues and raise scholarship money, among many other activities.
It was the general feature of "checks and balances" that was included to address the concern expressed by James Madison, since his main concern was that one part of the government, such as the executive branch, would become too powerful.
Louisiana was originally settled by the French who were avid practitioners of the Roman Catholic faith. They brought it with them to the area.
The answer to the blank space is center-outward.
The proximodistal trend in general can be defined as a concept in developmental psychology where <em>humans tend to develop more general functions of limbs before developing more specific fine motor skills – this is partially what the center to outward concept implies. </em>
An example of this phenomenon would be how infants would learn how to use their arm before learning how to write.