The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, strongly suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then an 48 year old senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York.
Legalism is a philosophical current that was born in China during the warring states era, between 475 and 221 BCE. Initially proclaimed by philosophers like Shang Yang, Li Si and Hanfeizi, this philosophy became the framework under which the Qin dynasty worked and led the first of all the Chinese empires.
Before 475, China was divided into smaller feudal territories and one such territories was governed by the Qin. The Qin, were steadfast legalists who believed strongly in the incapacity of people to rule themselves and to control themselves. Which is why they advocated and practiced the setting of rigid rules, educational campaigns to force the people to believe what they believed and a system of punishment and awarding that came into effect depending on the behavior of people. The Qin, though a strong and the first Chinese empire, did not last very long precisely because of its stringent and almost brutal principles. Another thing legalists, and especially the Qin, believed, was that the power of a ruler did not come from the election of the people, but through divine selection, which made the emperor unaccountable to anyone for his decisions and freed him from any kind of control by the people.
Finally, because the Qin strongly believed in rules and thought that rules and their upholding justified any means, they used the Mandate of Heaven to impose their ruling on the newly conquered territories and justified their power under this Mandate that people believed was sent by the gods. This is why, the correct answer would be D.
Due to its large population, the state of Virginia suggested the
Virginia Plan in order to maximize its influence (and the influence of
larger states) in the new national government. By having two houses with
representation based on population, the Virginia Plan would give the
state of Virginia a greater number of representatives.
He believed that no ones life or liberty would be safe by any means
