Which detail from the text best supports the idea that some people believed the Mary Celeste had a troubled past? Deveau added, 'And where are the sextant, navigation book, and ship's register?'"

“Her captain, Robert McLellan, took ill and died on her very first voyage.”

“The lifeboat that should have been lying across the main hatch was missing.”

“Because of bad weather, she anchored about a mile 'down the harbor'—offshore.”

The supreme court serves what important function in the u.s. federalgovernment?

This passage says that the government is necessary because . the passage states that checks and balances are needed to

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