Which historical event best demonstrates the operation of checks and balances? a) the senate approved the appointment of clarence thomas to the supreme court. b) south carolina seceded from the union over the issues of slavery and states rights. c) president george washington used the army to suppress a tax rebellion by pennsylvania farmers. d) president dwight d. eisenhower sent federal troops to enforce the integration of public schools in little rock, arkansas.

Sorry to editorialize but at the outset I just need to say that this is a terribly constructed question.

The correct answer is A.

Checks and Balances refers to the design of the US Federal Government wherein each branch is responsible to other branches in addition to being reliant on other branches for particular actions.

A is an example of the US Senate acting in their advise and consent role on the Executive Branch's power of appointment, which is a check that the Senate has on the Executive branch.

A better example would be the rejection of Robert Bork as a SCOTUS nominee.

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the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

unlike some other ancient cultures such as the greeks who had formed a creation myth where woman was a creature secondary to man and, more specifically, in the form of pandora, a bringer of unhappiness and vices, the romans had a more neutral approach where humanity, and not specifically the male, was created by the gods from earth and water. ovid's metamorphoses, for example, does not specify whether the first human was a man or a woman. at least in a physical sense then men and women were not regarded as belonging to a different species as in the greek world, a view often reiterated in roman medical treatises.