He served as U.S. minister to St. Petersburg (1831–33) for the Andrew Jackson administration, U.S. senator (1834–45), and secretary of state (1845–49) in the cabinet of Pres. James K. Polk.
Germany had been blockaded during the war (the Allies didn't let food and fertilizer through), and many of its citizens were still starving afterward.
As a new democracy, German bureaucracy was rather inefficient.
These problems eventually led to Hitler becoming the leader of Germany (he promised to solve them, and he blamed the Jews for other problems), which led to World War 2.
An electoral system based on proportional representation would be less likely to: <span>give one party a majority over all other parties
Without the electoral system, a party could just win the majority support of some states that has the majority of the population (such as California and Manhattan) while ignoring the rest of the states and will always win the election</span>
<span>The beginnings or WWII led congress to pass five Neutrality Acts in an effort to stress our policy of remaining neutral. We did not want to get involved and pick a side.</span>
