B.
The colonizing nation cut ties with the colony but government structures it established remain in place.
Progressive reformers targeted voting fraud.
They could be primary or secondary source documets
between a strong central government and the public interest."It is rather to argue that in politics there are no immaculate conceptions, and that in the drive for a stronger general government motives of all sorts played a part, common good or public interest that militated against their private status."