How can a person gain "power" over other people in a democracy? how can they "lose" this power? how is this different from gaining/ losing power in a totalitarian government?

Transitioning countries must take into account the costs of capitalism, because they will experience its as the great depression's and they experience its benefits.

The system of checks and balances was designed for what purpose? fear of strong state power to keep power out of one branch to appease the southern states to allow the judicial branch to have equal power

Item 14 which statement is an accurate description of the transatlantic slave trade? africans were brought to the americas in a three-part system of triangular trade. slaves went from europe to africa, and then to the americas in a circle of trade. native american slaves were sent to europe in exchange for sugar and molasses. africans traded tobacco and furs for captured arabs whom they sold into slavery.