It was very necesssary for the urban sprwal
I would guess The US and Canada
Pre-WW1 pacifism was the belief that violence was always immoral, even if someone is trying to kill you. The belief might have been grounded in religious commitment against the killing of human beings or in a secular belief that war could never replace peaceful negotiations as a means of solving disputes.
Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly. This differs from the majority of currently established democracies, which are representative democracies.