I think it takes sixty votes to approve a supreme court justice
The reason that the democratic republicans are hesitant to
challenge the alien and the sedition acts before the supreme court was because
the supreme court has been dominated in which the ones responsible of the
domination is the federalist justices.
I think it is ancient Mesopotamia.
A democracy works under meeting and exercise the government in person, while a republic is the meeting and agreements of the citizens. They assemble and administrate to keep the discussion civil.