King louis was charged with conspiracy against his kingdom, so he was beheaded and that left the throne open.
I think it does not stand for anything specific
The ultimate question is the question to the universe and how it all started and such
The main reason why Congress worked to keep a balance between the number of slaveholding states and free states is because they wanted to avoid war breaking out between the North and the South. They tried to do this through a series of compromises that ultimately failed.