A company for and by shareholders for the purpose of trade ,eploration,and colonisation
Assuming you're referring once again to the Medieval Period, the main reason why the church and religious life had such great appeal at this point in history was that there was very little scientific understanding of the way things in life "worked"--meaning that people relied on faith and an invisible hand of the Divine to explain why many of life's great mysteries occurred.
Probable Cause, this is under the 4th amendment
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The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed equal enforcement of laws for everyone, regardless of race or gender. This paved the way for many new laws, including Title IX, and the Civil Rights Act.