What law made it illegal to prevent people from voting based on the color of their skin, race, or having been a slave?
a) 14th amendment
b) 15th amendment
c) 13th amendment
d) civil rights act of 1866

montesquieu took the view that the roman republic had powers separated so that no one could usurp complete power. in the british constitutional system, montesquieu discerned a separation of powers among the monarch, parliament, and the courts of law.