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“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

How was george washington able to defeat the british in the battle of trenton and princeton

Ineed asap! ! what is the name of the system in which each branch of the u. s government can limit the actions of the other branches? a. perpetual union b. division of powers c. cooperative federalism d. checks and balances