Read vice president aaron burr’s quote about the senate.

[the senate] is a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order, and of liberty; and it is here - it is here, in this exalted refuge; here, if anywhere, will resistance be made to the storms of political phrensy and the silent arts of corruption.

what was burr most likely saying about the senate?

a. the senate can be counted on to encourage rebellion and discord.
b. the senate is the lower house not just in name, but in action.
c. the senate is the stable, righteous, and reliable arm of government.
d. the senate can exist without the need for another arm of congress.

The correct answer is C) the Senate is the stable, righteous, and reliable arm of government.

What Vice-president Aaron Burr’s quote is saying about the Senate is that the Senate is the stable, righteous, and reliable arm of government.

Aaron Burr (1756-1836) was the third vice-president of the United States. He served under President Thomas Jefferson. In the re-election, Burr lost to Philip Schuyler. Burr blamed Alexander Hamilton for attacking him, affect his reputation and turning voters against him. In 1804, Burr killed Hamilton in a duel.

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)