Hello!
There are many ways citizens can participate in the election process. Citizens can vote in the election, campaign for the election candidates, work with groups of interest, sign petitions, create petitions, and more. =)
Germany was expected to pay reparations after WWI. War damaged their country, and left it in pieces. They had very little money to rebuild their buildings and roads because of the reparations.
He believes that Tom is innocent and deserves a fair trial.