The ninth state to ratify the Constitution in 1788, which officially empowered the new government, was

Government is best defined as the

a. institutions and procedures by which a territory and its people are ruled. b. invisible hand that turns private interests into public goods. c. the means by which wealth is redistributed. d. set of political principles and values that guide political life.

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president, disregarded parts of the Constitution when he led the North in the Civil War

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