Because a lot of people were not subject to it and so they werent taxed
According to the Supremacy Clause of Article 6 in the United States Constitution, if a state law goes against the Constitution, then the state law would be overturned and made null and void. All the laws that are passed by the Federal government would be treated as Supreme law of the land. It is globally accepted in the United States that the Constitution is the ultimate and supreme in regards to the laws of the land. The laws made by the federal Government would be treated as supreme unless it violates the rules laid down by the Constitution of United States. The United Supreme Court has the power to decide if the law is in violation of the Constitution or not.
Well, strictly speaking none of the options are correct.
This is a metaphor, and a metaphor for a country. It was originally applied in 1830s-1850s (within this period, we are not sure when) to what is today Turkey, but was known as the Ottoman Empire back then - so the answer is B.
recently it was used for Greece, too.
In the 1962 book Silent Spring, Carson wrote how pesticides killed everything and should be called biocides because of that. Even though she had her worries about acute pesticide poisoning, she was really alarmed about slow pesticide poisoning of everything, like humans and plants. Her intentions on the book were to educate people about pesticide risks, trying to transform the "myth" of pesticides into reality for the masses.