The castle was under siege by the invading army and many feared that the castle would fall under the invaders control. Congress voted to ratify the constitutional amendment. The military unit led an ambush on a supply convoy in the middle of the night hoping to catch them off guard.
I'd probably lean towards "installment plan". As the number of stores grew across the nation and more products became available, they began looking at different ways to get people to buy more even if they didn't have all of the cash at the moment. So as one store offered up an installment plan to help pay off that new car, fridge, or whatever, other stores were forced to compete allowing more people to get even more stuff. It's a tricky question because there were also early credit cards available at the this point in time, but installment plans are based on roughly the same concept - allowing people to buy on credit with a promise to pay everything off at a later date. As I see it, though, instead of having to sign up for a specific card you could walk into any store with an installment plan and get what you wanted
The United States House of Representatives.
If no candidate receives the requisite number of votes in the electoral college, then the United States House of Representatives votes and decides who should be President.
The general thinking is that the House is the most representative of the American people and is therefore charged with expediently electing a President.
