Congress has the power to establish post offices and post roads, issue patents and copyrights, fix standards of weights and measures, establish courts inferior to the Supreme Court, and "To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers"
The Progressives sought to eliminate government corruption in order to empower the urban poor and those who were underprivileged by society. For example, through making the 17th amendment in the constitution which states that the legislators of the United States shall be elected by the people that they represent instead of voting within the Senate, they gave chance for the people to be heard.
While today we see it as a moral issue, the South back in the Antebellum era saw it as an economical issue.
Messages in popular culture and the mass media encouraged these women to give up their jobs and return quietly to domestic life. Most women, however, wished to keep their jobs, and thus women made up approximately one-third of the peacetime labor force.
