John Dickinson was the Pennsylvania delegate that refused to sign the Declaration of Independence. Dickinson was not the only one to refuse to sign, as James Duane, Robert Livingston, and John Jay also refused to sign. These individuals felt that 1776 was not the right to break away from Britain and worried about the future of the 13 colonies without the help of Britain.
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The current population of Russia in 2021 is 145,912,025, a 0.02% decline from 2020. The population of Russia in 2020 was 145,934,462, a 0.04% increase from 2019. The population of Russia in 2019 was 145,872,256, a 0.09% increase from 2018. The population of Russia in 2018 was 145,734,038, a 0.14% increase from 2017.
Governments typically had been either unitary or confederated. Or another way to say that is that they either focused on centralized power (in someone like a king) or particularized power -- the power in the parts of a kingdom rather than at the center.
So, for instance, in France (prior to its Revolution), all the power in the kingdom centered in the hands of the king. For 175 years, they didn't even have a meeting of the Estates General which was their version of a representative body. And the power of nobles on their lands was reduced while the king's power grew.
Meanwhile, in the German territories, there was a loose confederation called the Holy Roman Empire. One of the kings or princes held the title of "emperor," but he really had no imperial power. The confederated German states retained control over their own kingdoms or territories.
The American experiment mixed something of the best of both approaches. There would be strong central power in the federal government, but putting checks and balances on that power by retaining certain aspects of control in the hands of the states within the union.
Upton Sinclair, Frank Norris and Ida Tarbell made their greatest contributions to the Progressive movement by (4) publishing books and articles to expose the problems of society. Upton Sinclair wrote a book which showed the dangerous and unsanitary lives workers of the Meatpacking District went through on a daily basis, Frank Norris exposed the struggle railroad workers go through with their bosses and the unfairness of the railroad workers life in California and Ida Tarbell wrote about the manipulative men behind the oil trade.