The 17th amendment was ratified in 1913. So before the ratification, the senators were chosen by the states legislature, but after the ratification it was a popular vote that disided the senator.
Answer: Yes. We were better over time but we became a poor country until people from all over the world started coming to seek a free country with a right of free religion. Then by the 1800's the US was becoming one of the richer country's across the world.
World War I took the United States out of a recession into a 44-month economic boom. 30 Before the war, America had been a debtor nation. After the war, it became a lender, especially to Latin America. U.S. exports to Europe increased as those countries geared up for war.
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Explanation:
Each person agrees to obey the limit placed on them by the law of the government
According to Locke the main purpose of government is to protect the nature right that the individual cannot effectively protect in a state of nature
