Why might a country choose to empower subnational governments at the expense of the national government?

to protect the rights of linguistic minority identity groups

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.

your answer would b. the missisipi river

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