Ok so, at least Six justices have to vote at all to decide an issue, and no matter how many justices are voting, a Majority Vote must be attained. So if Nine justices were to vote, Five justices would have to be for one side, as five would be majority over the four remaining justices.
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Many men became rich and brought their families, leading to bustling towns of successful small business owners. Mining towns did well with little regulation from the government, leading to the establishment of more independent towns in the West.
After then U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's failed attempts to negotiate an agreement with Germany to end the unrestricted attacks of German submarines on British ships the German Foreign Minister, in what came to be known as the Zimmerman Telegram, invited Mexico to join the war alongside Germany and offered to help Mexico recover the Texas, New Mexico and Arizona territories. The UK intercepted the telegram and passed the information along to President Wilson. America saw this invitation as an act of war and so in an effort to put an end to militarization from foreign opposition U.S. congress called for war on Germany on April 6th, 1917.
