What is one purpose of the supremacy clause of the constitution? a. it ensures that citizenship rights are retained only by certain people. b. it prevents the federal government from gaining too much power over the states. c. it ensures that the relationship between state and federal laws remains clear. d. it enables checks on the power of each branch of government.

Look at the painting the lictors bring to brutus the bodies of his sons by jacques-louis david (1789). the most likely message this painting sends to french citizens is that one must be prepared to sacrifice their own children to preserve france. loyalty to one’s country stops short of sacrificing one’s own children. brutality is an integral part of revolution and the reign of terror. no one is immune to death, not even the leaders of the revolution.