As you enter the kitchen after school you can smell chocolate chip cookies baking. this scent causes you to salivate. your salivation is best explained by:

reflex (involuntary) action

Explanation:

Salivation, after smelling baked cookies is best described as a reflex action, i.e it is a rapid, automatic and unconscious response that would always occur regardless of time or environment.

Other examples of reflex actions are

- blinking of the eye

- withdrawal of hand from hot objects etc

the framers of the constitution insisted that federal judges be nominated instead of elected due to their desire to have judges above the shifting whims of the masses.

the hope, whether achieved or not, was that federal judges would only be beholden to the law and that by not having judges be elected, they would be protected if that law dictated an outcome that ran counter to popular opinion.