They where big trading cities that many people wanted to control and because of it geographic location it was used as a cultural hearth
Single member districts and a winner-take-all voting system. Hope this helps!
Socialism is a evil scheme for the government to get what they want from the citizens without their conscent and most country’s that went socolist in the past killed millions of their own people and hundreads and thousands died to starvation and that country ended up being the worst on earth like CUBA North Korea China USSR Germany in the early mid 1900s and Canada
A. To make laws / pass laws