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After being held up in the courts for more than a year, President Barack Obama’s signature immigration executive actions that proposed expanding his deferred action policies to allow individuals residing in the country illegally the opportunity to avoid deportation and obtain work permits and driver’s licenses were blocked from being implemented in a 4-4 ruling delivered by the United States Supreme Court on June 23, 2016.[1]
Without a ninth justice, due to the vacancy left on the court by former Justice Antonin Scalia's unexpected death, the Supreme Court was unable to rule on the case. The 4-4 split decision upheld the lower court's ruling, which blocked the new and expanded immigration policies from going into effect. President Obama blamed the court's inability to issue a ruling on Republican senators who have declined to hold a confirmation hearing on his Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland.[2]
Which statement offers the best comparison between the North and South at the beginning of the Civil War?
All statements are false except for the last one. The North's advantage is that they had a longer coastline than the South.<span>
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Answer(s):
1st: <u>Clerics and Kings</u> on the top of the hierarchy, <u>Farmers and Warriors</u> beneath them, <u>Fishermen</u> on the third layer, <u>Weavers and Leatherworkers</u> on the fourth layer and <u>Smiths and Griots</u> at the bottom layer.
2nd: The political systems of African kingdoms <u>shared similarities with European kingdoms</u>. The king, such as <u>Mansa Musa</u> of <u>Mali</u> and <u>Sonni Ali</u> of Songhay, had near absolute power and there was no separation of power. The king and his councilors and advisors carried out <u>executive, legislative, and judicial functions.</u>
3rd: First, the early African kingdoms and empires r<u>elied heavily on trade with other people</u>. Besides the trade in <u>ivory, gold, and other commodities</u> identified earlier, produce from agriculture was also exchanged in the form of <u>cash crops</u>. These trade relations put them at the center of the economy of the east and west.
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