Which branches of government determine whether the constitution allows a legislature to create a particular law? a. in most legal matters, the executive branch determines which laws should be carried out. b. if a federal law affects states, typically state legislatures determine whether that law should be put into effect. c. the federal courts decide almost all issues of the constitutionality of laws?

How did the end of the mexican american war result in growing sectionalism in the united states?

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

The government has the right to restrict the number of people who visit the white house. this is an example of a government exercising its