Senator joseph mccarthy built his power on the issue of the
a. need to weaken the role of congress.
b. extent of communist influence in the federal government.
c. decline of academic achievement among american students.
d. importance of improving race relations.

“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