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Political parties are important in the US Congress, because party affiliation

Answer 4) Shapes the debate and controls legislative agenda. The US Congress places a great importance on the political parties because party affiliation shapes the debate and controls the legislative agenda. Although political parties are not government institutions on their…

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The Supreme Court is best characterized as

Answer: 2. An appellate court. The Supreme Court is best characterized as an appellate court. An appellate court is a legislative court that has been empowered to act as a means to ensure the proper application of the law whenever…

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What is de jure discrimination? Provide examples.

De Jure is a Latin expression that simply means by or through the law. It shows that something is real as defined through legislation. Therefore, De jure discrimination is discrimination that is enforced and codified by the governing law. It…

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What’s the significance of Wabash v. Illinois case?

Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Company vs Illinois, 118 U.S.557 (1886) case is a case by the Supreme Court of the US that was instrumental in the formation of the Interstate Commerce Commission. With the expansion of railroads in…

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Math Calculus — AID—

Total time spent: 4 hours 15 minutes (it is equivalent to 255 minutes). Let the flight time from Paris to Glasgow be X. Then the flight time from Glasgow to Paris will be (X+10). We have an equation with one unknown variable: X + 45 + (X+10) = 255 ⇒ X = 100 So the […]

What were the typical crafts for Maya?

Mayans are well-known as great pottery makers. They did not use the pottery wheel. However,the tecnique they used was coiling consecutive rings of clay on top of each other and smoothing the surface by hand. Also, they were good when it came to working with stone – stone craving is another important craft of Maya. Many […]

What defines a free market?

The efficient working of a free market economy requires that the producer firms must have incentives to work hard and produce goods and services at the lowest possible cost per unit of output Market economies provide incentives to the firms and individuals by recognising and enforcing the property rights of the individuals and firms to […]

How does 3D printing work?

There are three different ways 3D printers work but they all rely on the printer converting a design into individual 2D slices which are then combined to make the final 3D object. The first method uses a pool of chemicals that turns solid when light, typically a UV laser, is shone on to it. The […]

Cigarette smoking causes emphysema.

Nearly everyone knows that smoking causes lung cancer, but did you know that smoking causes a number of other serious lung diseases? These include chronic bronchitis and emphysema, collectively known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is the fourth largest killer of Australians and smoking is the most important risk factor for COPD. When […]