Generally speaking, the "rule of law" refers to the constitution or implied constitution of a state or country that determines how all laws are made and enacted--something that no law of government action can go against.
Radiocarbon dating is the method of dating bone that would yield the most accurate results. This kind of dating technique is used for determining the age of any object that contains organic materials in it. This is the method that was developed by a person named Willard Libby in the late 1940s. Libby got the Nobel Prize in the year 1960 for his great work.
There was no other reason for the Intolerable Acts other than to punish the colonists for what they were already doing.
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The Freed Slaves. Southern states undermined efforts at equality with laws designed to disfranchise blacks, despite of a series of federal equal-rights laws.