The Arguments<span> For and </span>Against Mandatory Minimum Sentences. Statutes imposing mandatory minimum sentences<span> result in arbitrary and severe punishments that undermine the public's faith in America's criminal justice system. ... </span>Mandatory minimum sentences<span>, therefore, waste scarce criminal justice resources.</span>
B is the most accurate for this question! :D
This passage we can say is a direct response the critique of indulgences raised by the Protestant reform.
In other words this could be a direct answer to Martin Luther and his 95 thesis, in which the selling of the indulgences, that is the forgiveness of sins in exchange of money, was the main issue. The Church states that the Christ himself gave the right to them to sell the indulgences and that that is the time-honored tradition.
The Second World War earned the United States a place at the grown ups table because they showed the rest of the world they were not to be trifled with. Both with their troops fighting and the fact that they were able to finish making the atomic bomb before an old, well established country like Russia.