After the war, the Radicals demanded civil rights for freed slaves, including measures ensuring suffrage. They initiated the various Reconstruction Acts as well as the Fourteenth Amendment and limited political and voting rights for ex-Confederate civil officials and military officers.
One of Machiavelli's main arguments in The Prince, which was a political treatise published in the 16th century was D. <span>Good leaders sometimes have to be cruel for the overall good of their society. </span>
