Spoken presentations by an attorney to the appellate court laying out the reasons why the court should rule in his or her client's favor are known as which of the following?

In the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville concluded that the United States had had no great wars because of its __________

a. great technological advances b. lack of powerful neighbors on its borders c. long periods of stability d. relative lack of social and political tensions

State and local governments tax income, property, and sales since all three of these are indicators of what government would really like to tax—________

A. status B. growth C. wealth D. education E. power