Party leaders are big fans of conventions because: n Sponsors must swear that they know the candidate personally and consider him qualified for the office he is seeking.
n The convention system gives them opportunity to take care of the other party business besides nominating candidates.
m Candidates can judge whether they are in line with the rest of the party
m The party can "fine-tune" its organization, finding where it is weak and working to correct the weakness.
n They can rally the party faithful with platforms for debate and decisions.

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