(5 points)
1. Who usually benefits the most from gerrymandering congressional districts? (Hint: think about majority and minority parties.)


(5 points)
2. Who benefits the most from pork-barrel projects?


(20 points)
3. Do you think these systems are fair? Why or why not? Make sure to explain why you think as you do.

What was the main argument of plessy in plessy v. ferguson

“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

Where did khomeini seize power in 1979?