In the "real-life civics" feature, you read about how supreme court decisions have
affected both the lives of individual americans and the practices of the united states
government
• are you surprised that supreme court decisions can change the actions of the
federal government? why or why not?

i will crown you

no i am not surprised,because they can make more higher up decisions that the government that is how parliament works

Explanation:

i believe the answer is:

-   william jennings bryan is a democrat while mckinley was a republican

at that time, the segment of population that choose for democratic party were the voters with low economic background and vice versa

- william jennings has support of populists and wants to have inflation to farmers while mckinley has support of bankers and businessmen , doesn't want inflation

the fixed value of gold make the large business able to stack up their gold without   being worried that it would devaluated.

- william jennings supported the silver standard while mckinley supported the gold standard

according to jenning, using other metal beside gold could the poor people to have more purchasing power and them advance in the society.