Thomas Jefferson’ comments on Eerie canal highlighted that he felt that it was impossible to complete such a huge project.
Explanation:
Thomas Jefferson who was a visionary and fore runners of the US Constitution had once commented that the construction of Eerie canal was a plan which is ‘little short of madness’. This reflected that he was totally not confident about the completion of the project and felt it to be impossible.
He felt it’s impossible because he had observed George Washington who is the fellow- Virginian also failed to complete the project of building a canal in the Potomac River. It was a canal that was successfully built for more than three hundred miles and all the credit was given to the New York governor Dewitt Clinton.
He initially faced criticisms and many felt it is the ditch which he made for himself for his own political downfall but times changed and the construction was carried on successfully.
Correct answer: on the basis of the age of sitting judges.
Context/explanation:
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was eager to implement his New Deal programs as an antidote to the Great Depression. However, the US Supreme Court had already ruled that some provisions of the New Deal were unconstitutional, because they took too much power into the hands of the federal government, especially the executive branch of the federal government. So, riding the momentum of his landslide reelection victory in 1936, in February of 1937, FDR proposed a plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges. The plan offered to provide full pay to justices over age 70 who would retire. If the older justices didn't retire, assistant justices (with full voting rights) would be appointed to sit with those existing justices. This was a way FDR hoped to give the court a liberal majority that would side with his programs.
As it turned out, before FDR's proposal came up for a vote in Congress, two of the sitting justices came over to his side of the argument, and the Supreme Court narrowly approved as constitutional both the Social Security Act and the National Labor Relations Act. So his plan (which failed in the US Senate) became unnecessary to his purposes.
Roosevelt's "court-packing" scheme was unpopular. It was seen as an attempt to take away the independence of the judicial branch of government.
Government websites is the correct answer
Answer:
Optimism bias.
Explanation:
The concept of optimism bias was developed by Weinstein in 1980 while researching on college students. It is also known as 'mistaken beliefs'.
Optimism bias can be defined as a cognitive bias, according to which a person tends to believe that the chance of experiencing negative events is less or low and chances of experiencing positive events are high for them in comparison to their peers.
There are pros and cons to such types of beliefs as people are less likely to assess any risk which will lead them to poor decision making. Though, optimism bias can also help to build self-esteem.
<u>In the given case, when people compare themselves with their peers and believe that the probability of negative experience in their life is less and positive experience is high is </u><u>due to optimism bias</u>.
Explanation:
Solstices occur when Earth's axis is pointed directly toward our Sun. This happens twice a year during Earth's orbit. On that same day, the southern hemisphere is tilted 23.5 degrees away from our Sun and the southern regions of Earth experience the shortest day of the year — the winter solstice.
