Read the excerpt from "my first march." i had never seen so many buses in my life! whether i looked through the front windshield or the window by my seat, an ocean of buses was all i could see. yellow school buses, silver greyhounds, and buses in all kinds of colors that didn’t have any writing on them. mama said they were all going to the same place as us, which didn’t seem possible. what kind of place could hold all those people? telling this excerpt from a child’s perspective the reader to share the child’s amazement. boredom. confusion. impatience.

When the framers our state's constitution began to create it, they looked to the u.s. constitution as a model. much like the national government, they created a state government in which each branch could keep the others from having too much power. for example, the state supreme court can- once a law has been passed and enforced- rule that the law violates the state constitution. if this happens, the law is no longer enforced. what principle of government is being described in this passage? a) federalism b) separation of powers c) checks and balances d) republican government