They want bases to strengthen the military attacks leading up to the main land of Japan. They also wanted to weaken the Japan's troops which were based on those islands. The reason they started with the Solomon Islands is that it would take a while for Japan to mobilize their troops to get to the Solomon Islands. It was also a major advantage point for the American troops to use as a naval base, or a air base I forget which, but it was a good idea at the time.
This is FALSE. The Supreme court did NOT rule in the insular cases that the United States Constiution automatically applied to people in acquired territories.
If there is a tie in the electoral college between two candidates, it is then up to the House of Representatives to pick the winner. Each state delegate would have one vote in this tie-breaker election. The Senate would be responsible for picking the Vice-President in the aforementioned scenario. This has happened just a few times in US history.
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This is a speech given by Patrick Henry at the Virginia ratifying convention. Suspicious of centralized authority, Henry opposed the ratification of the proposed Constitution. He said the new system would take away too much power from the state governments and give too much power to the new national government.
