Which best describes the meaning of the word politics?
a. it is the power of the executive branch to conduct foreign policy.
b. it is the power of the executive branch to carry out the laws.
c. it determines who will benefit from, and who will pay for, public policies.
d. it is the process by which the president commands the military.

Why did france demand that germany repay their debts in foreign currency?

Which statement in the passage best reflects sumer's opinion of the dred scott decision? a."i speak what cannot be denied." b."[the] judgment was sustained by a falsification of history." b."the opinion was more thoroughly abominable than anything history." i speak what cannot be denied when i declare that the opinion of the chief justice in the case of dred scott was more thoroughly abominable than anything of the kind in the history of courts. judicial baseness reached its lowest point on that occasion. you have not forgotten that terrible decision where a most unrighteous judgment was sustained by a falsification of history. -charles sumner, 1865

After the civil war which president was called a "carpetbagger"?