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Muckrakers were journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government.
The work of muckrakers influenced the passage of key legislation that strengthened protections for workers and consumers.
Some of the most famous muckrakers were women, including Ida Tarbell and Ida B. Wells.
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the population is too large
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The direct democracy is a system in which everyone in the society that is eligible to vote should be taken in consideration when making any law or action. While this might be a good system for a very small population, it is not at all for large population. The United States have more than 300 million people, and it is extremely impractical and pretty much impossible that everyone's opinion can be taken in consideration when it comes to the politics of the country.
Perhaps in the Civil War era, the Dred Scott decision angered Abolitionists as the Supreme Court declared African Americans could not be a US citizen as they were not mentioned as as in the Constitution and that Congress abused their power by abolishing Slavery above the Mason Dixon line and in the New Western territories.
Northerners and famously Fredrick Douglass denounced the court ruling.<span />
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The NAACP
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Important figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks did not come till later in the movement.
