People who try to cover the cloven hoof of empire with the petticoats of "Expansion" are as careless of the dictionary as of the constitution. The Philippines do not mean expansion. It does not expand the fire of freedom to pour water on it. ... Expansion is enlargement in kind. If the ex- Spanish colonies applied for admission to this republic and we accepted them, that would be expansion. -Charles F. Lummis, editorial in the Land of Sunshine Which statement best describes this excerpt?​

In a planned economy, which of the following does the job of market forces in order to determine the outcomes?

“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

The louisianna purchase was controversil because