<span>The option that best explains how the Senate affects the powers of the President is that the Senate must approve many presidential actions. Whereas a president rules a country to some extent, the true ruler is the Senate, which sometimes has more powers than the President himself. They are the ones who must decide whether or not to agree with some decisions that the president makes, and whether or not to approve them.</span>
Answer:
d. our division of time into hours, minutes, and seconds.
Explanation:
The Sumerians were responsible for dividing time the way we do today. First, they determined that the day would begin at sunrise and end only if sunset, where the night would begin that would only end when the sun rose again. After that, observing the skies and their changes throughout the day and night, they developed a complex, but very efficient, division and timing system. They realized that the day could be divided into 24 hours and that each hour could be divided into 60 minutes, so each minute should have 60 seconds.
The major downfall of the Articles of Confederation<span>was simply </span>weakness<span>. The federal government, under the </span>Articles<span>, was too weak to enforce their laws and therefore had no power. The Continental Congress had borrowed money to fight the Revolutionary War and could not repay their debts.</span>