<span>Montesquieu's most lasting contribution to political thought was his promotion of the "separation of powers," since this was a staple of future democratic governments used to prevent tyranny. </span>
A. <span>Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana Territory and kept detailed records of their findings. </span>
A very very bad war and it is sorta still going on.<span />
For decades prior to the Prohibition (i.e., the legal ban of alcoholic drinks) made possible by the Eighteen Amendment, different Christian churches and organizations had been objecting to the consumption of alcohol since they considered it as the source of most debauchery and moral decadence. Their goal was made clear to the federal government: alcohol should be completely banned in order to clean society up. An excise tax on alcohol would have been rejected by all the moralistic groups advocating for prohibition as a mild and ineffective measure
