It was likely he could face death on charges of heresy.
A hundred years before Luther began his reformation efforts, Czech reformer Jan Hus was put to death by the Roman Catholic Church for being a heretic. There was much fear Luther would be treated like Hus had been treated. Luther had the advantage of having a strong prince in his territory in Saxony who was intent on protecting Luther as one of his subjects, preventing the pope (seen as another ruling prince) from interfering with the sovereignty that Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony asserted over his domain.
The correct answer is: " Supply and demand regulate business"
According to the central thesis of The Wealth of Nations, the key to social welfare lies in economic growth, which is enhanced through the division of labor and free competition. According to this thesis, the division of labor, in turn, deepens as the extension of the markets and therefore specialization expand. For his part, Adam Smith considers free competition as the most ideal means of economics, stating that the contradictions engendered by the laws of the market would be corrected by what he called the "invisible hand" of the system.
In The Wealth of Nations, Smith assumes, in general, that the demand is relatively fixed in the short and medium term (depending ultimately on the number of people), and that, consequently, it is only the offer that makes the price go up or down
Rights for workers and equal wages, because many people were being overworked and underpaid