List 3 reasons the Catholic Church gained so much power:

Prior to the creation of the us constitution, the general view of representative government is that it only worked in very small-scale environments- essentially a city-state or smaller. otherwise, the actual reflection of popular will declined in the representatives (ie, the difference between 1 representative per 100 citizens and 1 representative per 10,000 citizens), and generally the whole process became inefficient and self-destructive.james madison, however, was like 'no beezy'. he remarked that small republics were prone to faction and thus collapsed quickly. a large republic, he said, had so many interests and factions that none could rule, and thus they had to moderate and compromise.

The equal protection clause, is part of the 14th amendment to the united states constitution,the clause, which took effect in 1868 provides that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the lawthe equal protection clause states that citizens are protected equally under the law