Why is a free press important in a democracy? A. Leaders need protection from lies and false accusations.
B. Citizens need good information to vote wisely.
C. Governments need a way to communicate with the people.
D. People need to be told which candidate to vote for.

Which two important economic activities in the west are possible because of the united states natural resources

Most criminologists agree that juvenile crime is less violent today than it was in the early 1990s. according to the text the reasons cited for this decline include what?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is