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The answer to your question is; 2.)Benjamin Franklin
Interesting document.
It was issued by the German Foreign office (January 1917) proposing that Mexico should align itself with Germany in the even America enter the war. Germany was pleading for an alliance that would keep America busy dealing with an attack from the south. Fortunately it didn't work.
Among the executive branch is checks on the legislative branch is the president‘s power to veto any legislation passed by the legislative branch. The president has two types of veto he can use. One is veto, which vetoes the whole legislation, which would then have a re-vote by the legislative branch. The other is line-item veto, in which the president vetoes parts of the bill, but not the whole thing.
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The confederacy was essentially cut in half. And their supply lines were destroyed (not that they had much supplies anyway)