What was the main idea of baron de montesquieu’s book the spirit of laws? government should be split into separate branches. citizens are born with certain natural rights. government enters into a social contract with its citizens. government should not force religion on its citizens.

Ascientist performs an experiment where she measures the mass of a piece of metal, pours acid onto the metal, washes the metal, and then re-measures the mass of the metal. the scientist repeats the experiment several times, each time increasing the amount of acid used. the dependent variable in the experiment is the: initial mass of the metal final mass of the metal amount of acid used washing the metal