In early united states history, "midnight judge" refers specifically to
a) judges who lacked qualifications for office.
b) racist groups who terrorized minorities at night.
c) political action committees who influenced local magistrates.
d) judges appointed to serve based on their political affiliation.

c) legal battles last five weeks after the election due to the narrow victory in several states.

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.