California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and Utah all
have parts of one or more deserts within their boundaries. Hope this helps.
They depended on the monsoons.
It was in 1931 when Japan began its occupation in China outside of Manchuria. This was during the time that Japan considered Manchuria as a great source because of its natural resources. Japan thought that this would lead to a great industrial development and the chance to acquire great power.
Social norms or social expectations
The answer is: because it is the means by which public will becomes public policy.
Members of the congress are elected by the citizens in order to carried out their aspiration to the lawmaking process.
The citizens cannot force their will to the government and directly vote for the law that must be passed by the government. BUT , they can elect a congress who has similar goals, value, principles as them and trust that congress to make the best possible decision for them.
Because of this, we can say that the lawmaking function of congress is an important means to make public will to become public policy.
