Define senatorial courtesy. How can senatorial courtesy be viewed in both a negative light and a positive light?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.". This famous quote comes from

a. Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. b. James Madison in the Preamble to the United States Constitution. c. Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address. d. John Locke in his Two Treatises of Government. e. Thomas Hobbes in his The Leviathan.

In noncapital cases, the sentence is almost always issued by which of the following?

a. prosecutor b. public defender c. grand jury d. judge