In 1628, a group of Puritans formed<span> the New England Company. The King of England gave them a charter to make a settlement along the </span>Massachusetts Bay<span>. The first group of Puritan settlers was led by John Endecott. They began the settlement Salem, </span>Massachusetts<span>.</span>
AT LEAST FIVE JUDGES must agree to an opinion for the supreme court to issue a decision.
Supreme court justices handles a lot of legal cases regularly. The supreme court decision makers is usually made up of one chief justice and eight other members. For each of the case brought to the supreme court, the judges have to agree about what their decision on the case is going to be. For a decision to be valid, at least five judges must agree to the decision.
James Madison played a great role in establishment of the US as a republic. During the writing of the constitution, the founding fathers were adamant that they wanted democratic system of governance. However, they were torn between a direct democracy and a republican democracy. James Madison dismissed a direct democracy since the US is a large country and thus impossible to be governed through direct pure democracy. Instead, the father of the constitution argued for a scheme of representation in a republican setting. He especially lauded such a government since it even catered for the rights of the minority than in direct democracies.
