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For one it could be seen as undemocratic, For example if a candidate loses the popular vote, the electoral college could still let that candidate in even if they lose the popular election. It also has a winner-takes-all approach which cancels the votes of the losing candidates in each state.
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e
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Cotton was a very important resource across the world for making clothes, etc...And cotton could be planted in the south and many landowners needed slaves to do those jobs.
Which of the following is protected by under the first Amendment?
A. <span>distributing a written article that criticizes the unethical actions of a politician.</span>
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C) the government should be divided into parts with separate and independent responsibilities and powers
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The main goal of the principle of separation of powers is to prevent usurpation, monopolization of power within a single body or department, which inevitably leads to despotism, the suppression of human rights and freedoms.
The balance of power is supported by special measures (the so-called "system of checks and balances"), which provide interaction and mutual limitation of the powers of these bodies. At the same time, they guarantee the independence of one power from another within the limits of their authority. Within its competence, each government is independent and submits only to the law. However, the separation of powers does not mean their confrontation. None of the branches of government can appropriate the functions of the other, but it is also not able to act separately, therefore the authorities complement each other, maintaining the necessary connection and coherence.
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WESTWARD MOVEMENT
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Examine how U.S. westward movement and the annexation of Texas sparked the Mexican-American War
Examine how U.S. westward movement and the annexation of Texas sparked the Mexican-American War
Begun when the United States annexed Texas, the Mexican-American War ended with the United States acquiring much of what is now the American Southwest.
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Westward movement, the populating by Europeans of the land within the continental boundaries of the mainland United States, a process that began shortly after the first colonial settlements were established along the Atlantic coast. The first British settlers in the New World stayed close to the Atlantic, their lifeline to needed supplies from England. By the 1630s, however, Massachusetts Bay colonists were pushing into the Connecticut River valley. Resistance from the French and Native Americans slowed their movement westward, yet by the 1750s northern American colonists had occupied most of New England
