This cartoon from the distant 1871 called " Who Stole the People's Money" deals with the problem of the power of the political machines, so the answer would be c. The political machines were benefiting by taking kickbacks and using extortion among other things.
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Shays' Rebellion was an uprising carried out by farmers in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The main effect that it had on our country was that it caused the calling of the Constitutional Convention. The men who attended this convention wrote the US Constitution.
The electoral system was informed by the decision that the populace at large is ignorant, uneducated and uninformed to make rational political decisions and choices and thus there was a fear that this ignorant majority would be cheated out to make poor political choices at the ballot.
the current population can not be referred to by those terms as there are cases that they have made better decisions at the ballot, only to be overturned by the electoral college.
From. B, Northern and Western Europe.