Compare and Contrast the positions of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during the 1858 Senate race.

What directive in source a might have been at the root of the action described in source b?

What is one role of congress in determining the federal budget? a. voting on whether to approve proposed budgets b. announcing the budget to the country c. developing budget requests d. signing spending bills into law

“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