In which of the following scenarios did Congress choose a policy in response to the opinion of a politically engaged minority rather than the opinion of the majority of Americans?

Small business associations presented strong opposition to the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Lobbying groups that did not favor guaranteeing women's rights blocked ratification of the Equal Rights
Amendment

The strength of support from the NAACP forced Congress to pass the 24th Amendment despite opposition
in many states

Nationwide efforts by the National Rifle Association and other gun supporters have kept Congress from
considering gun-control measures.

Why is this statement not a hypothesis? sunflowers require soil and plenty of sunlight and water to grow and thrive. a. it is a well-known fact. b. it is a proven theory. c. it is not falsifiable. d. it is difficult to test.

“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?

What conflict ended the false doctrine of "states rights"