Which of the following were most similar?

The Mayflower Compact and Montesquieu's separation of powers

Magna Carta and Montesquieu's separation of powers

The Mayflower Compact and John Locke's social contract theory

The English Bill of Rights and Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts