A is the correct answer.
The Pendleton Act was designed to make sure that people in government were actually qualified for their jobs and just not there for patronage.
Patronage was a great way for the Executive branch to get stuff done, so it had an impact.
The answer is of course B - water.
Japan is consisted out of four big islands (Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku, and Kyushu). While each of them also has their own small characteristics, separate from each other, Japan has in general been isolated due to its specific geographical environment. Not being connected to any landmass such as neighbouring China, the only contact they could have had was by boat. And travelling by boat has always been more difficult compared to packing your stuff and going somewhere.
Answer:
D. governmental power is shared
Explanation: In a Federal state, the power within the government typically shifted into several smaller regions. Each region will be given the power to independently regulate Itself (creating legislation, proposing government programs, etc), In United States, we refer to this as States government.
On top of the state's government, the Federal state established the Central government. The central government has authority over the state's government and will be responsible to create regulations that affected a nation as a whole rather than one individual state.
All of them do that but it is mostly in the new testamet
