Under which of the following types of cases does the Supreme Court have original jurisdiction?

A. a federal criminal case
B. a case involving foreign diplomats
C. a civil case involving a government and a private party
D. a legislative court case


B. a case involving foreign diplomats

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A researcher is examining the historical events of a nuclear disaster. In order to investigate thoroughly, she first classifies historical information into discrete events and then orders them into a temporal sequence. After identifying prior events that occurred leading up to the disaster, she creates an event’s diagram and then eliminates connections from the diagram that are not necessary to explain the disaster. This process is an example of ______.

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