It essentially said that the Jews were not human and were to be treated as such. The goal of the Nuremburg Laws was to distinguish what Nazi Germany perceived as ethnically pure and impure populations. It assigned people with Jewish heritage as property of the state, giving them no rights. Jews were also strictly prohibited from reproducing. The Nuremburg laws also gave strict ethnic standards to the rest of the German people, which classified them based on their ancestors race.
The spread of Communism in China and the Soviet Union successfully testing a nuclear bomb.
The appropriate response is the first one. Joseph II was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790 and leader of the Habsburg lands from 1780 to 1790. He was the eldest child of Empress Maria Theresa and her significant other, Francis I, and was the sibling of Marie Antoinette.
The generation of the founding fathers was greatly affected by the historical context in which they lived. Absolute rulers, meaning monarchs who essentially abused their powers to the highest degree, were common during the Low and High Middle Ages, which ended only about a century before the Revolutionary War. The founders and other important statesmen found it to be imperative for this new country to have a set division of power and for branches of government to rule the country as opposed to a singular person deciding all national and state affairs. That would be a partial explanation for a division of power, however. The founders also avoided giving any one branch more power or importance than another. A system of checks and balances would ensure that no branch could undermine the other or seize whole control of the government. This concept would apply both for state and federal governments. The existence of these two governments originates to the inception of this country and the colonies’ representatives vouching for each colony to have its own state government with rights and privileges that the federal government would not have. Colonies had distinct identities and colonists prided themselves in being true Virginians, or New Yorkers, etc. State governments were bound to evolve from the colonial governments that were in place before the revolution. In an ideal world, the state and federal government would collaborate to ensure that the Declaration’s vision for Americans is realized. However, as history has shown, tensions between federal and state government have been documented throughout this nation’s history.
