Plato was actually a student of Socrates. Their ideals were
almost similar but they did differ as far as their opinion on democracy was
concerned. Socrates was a great believer in democracy. He was of the opinion
that the people possessed real knowledge and all good things were within the
people. So he believed that democracy was the only way to gain happiness. Plato
on the other hand did not believe in pure democracy, but he believed in
Republic Democracy, which is a mixture of democracy and oligarchy.
The creation of the Federalist Party, that favored business, a strong government and a lax interpretation of the Constitution, and the Democratic-Republican Party, that wanted a society based on small farms and a weaker core government; changed the nature of politics in the US as they proposed a dichotomy when voting, since the Constitution had been silent about political parties.
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This question isn't quite accurate. The size of the United States House of Representatives was capped to 435 by the Apportionment Act of 1911, which is otherwise known as "Public Law 62-5". Even with the 435 member cap, the size of the House of Representatives did climb temporarily past the cap when Arizona, New Mexico, Alaska, and Hawaii joined the United States and went back down to 435 after the next reapportionment was made in each case.</span>
The soil, because it was rich for farming and it was right next to the mississippi river.
