AT LEAST FIVE JUDGES must agree to an opinion for the supreme court to issue a decision.
Supreme court justices handles a lot of legal cases regularly. The supreme court decision makers is usually made up of one chief justice and eight other members. For each of the case brought to the supreme court, the judges have to agree about what their decision on the case is going to be. For a decision to be valid, at least five judges must agree to the decision.
Answer:
1. Moctezuma II welcomed the Spanish, thinking that Cortes was the human incarnation of the god Quetzalcoatl
2. Cortes and his man brought smallpox to the city of Tenochtitlan, killing many Aztec
3. Cortes established alliances with enemies of the Aztec such as the Tlaxcalans
4. Cortes marched up the coast of Mexico and conquered the territory of Veracruz
Explanation:
When the Spanish arrived in Mexico, the Aztecs were thinking that they were deities, and that Cortes is a human incarnation of Quetzalcoatl, with the main reason for that being that they looked much different and came with ships from where the legend said that Quetzalcoatl will one day return. The Spanish used this in their advantage and left the Aztecs to think that way, bringing them in their capital and making them familiar with it, but also brought smallpox with in the city, killing off the Aztecs. Cortes and his men were hungry for gold, and the Aztecs had lot of it. The Spanish understood that most of the people conquered by the Aztecs hated them, so they made alliances with them in order to attack them and take over their empire. Together, the Spanish and the local people managed to defeat the Aztecs and took over their territory, marking the beginning of the Spanish empire in the New World.
This term was known as popular sovereignty and resulted in debate over many decades in both State legislatures and the United States congress. It led to tension across the free and slave states, even leading to a event known as Bleeding Kansas in which the residents would determine whether to be free or slave
<span>Francisco Jimenez, also known as Pancho, is a young boy who lives with his family in a small pueblito in Mexico called El Rancho Blanco. The family dreams about living in a place where Papa will earn good money and they can live in a house with electricity and running water. Papa decides that his family will cross la frontera, the border between Mexico and California, so the family can have a better life. </span>
