You are a member of your county's board of supervisors. At a public meeting of the board of supervisors, one county
resident gets up and shouts at you for raising the state sales tax. After he is finished, you calm the man down and
explain to him that you are not responsible for raising the state sales tax and that if he has a problem with the move
he should address it with his district representative. He responds with, "Well, do you control any taxes that I can
complain about?" In eight to ten sentences, carefully explain the roles of the board of supervisors, elected officials,
and appointed officials in county government in handling property taxes.

basic principles: federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, judicial review, representative democracy, limited government, rule of law, individual rights and responsibilities, consent of the governed, majority rule, popular sovereignty, equal protection.

the options of this question are:

a) president wilson’s desire to form the league of nations  

b) germany’s desire for reasonable conditions of surrender and fair treatment.  

c)europe’s desire to maintain original pre-war borders  

d) the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions

the correct answer is d) the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions.

the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions had the greatest influence on how germany was treated after world war i.

it is estimated that the cost of wwi was around 260 billion dollars, and the allies wanted germany to pay a big part for the losses. the allies also wanted to impose land losses as well as limit the army of germany and confiscate their industrial resources to apply the retribution.

in the united states, president woodrow wilson created the fourteen points to be delivered to germany, as a peace program. he presented these documents to the u.s. congress in january 1918.