The check and balances system
For the Constitution to take effect, nine states required to ratify it, according to Article VII. The state conventions served other purposes in addition to the legal requirements for ratification. During the Philadelphia convention, the Constitution was drafted in complete secrecy.
True because it is based on social comparison
How people see the world
Some see it glass half full
Other see it glass half empty
He was prepared to try and blow it up because he romanticized war and had a perception of nobility in it. He believed in confederate ideals and was prepared to sacrifice himself for them, and it's no wonder that his luck turned on him because war is not a pretty thing and he got tricked by the enemy.