What is the function of checks and balances?

The government used a controversial bailout program to a. homeowners struggling with mortgage b. foreign banks overload with that c. automakers on the verge of collapse d. construction companies losing jobs

Which statement in the passage best reflects sumer's opinion of the dred scott decision? a."i speak what cannot be denied." b."[the] judgment was sustained by a falsification of history." b."the opinion was more thoroughly abominable than anything history." i speak what cannot be denied when i declare that the opinion of the chief justice in the case of dred scott was more thoroughly abominable than anything of the kind in the history of courts. judicial baseness reached its lowest point on that occasion. you have not forgotten that terrible decision where a most unrighteous judgment was sustained by a falsification of history. -charles sumner, 1865

Do you think the cartoonist has a positive or negative view of bryan? why?