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C. national conventions for nominating presidential candidates
Explanation:
The progressives wanted the citizens to have as much influence as possible during the election of the president.
If presidential candidates were chosen by the national conventions, the political parties are the one that will decide which person can run as the presidential candidates. The citizens/voters have no say on it. This will increase the risk that the parties will only appoint nominees that serve the interest of the party, not the citizens.
This is why the progressives favor direct primaries, which enable the citizens to vote for the candidate that should run for the presidential election.
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Using a handmade telescope in January 1610, Galileo confirmed the Copernican theory that the planets moved around the sun; the Earth was not the center of the solar system. Galileo verified a new truth, and threatened the orthodoxy of his time.
Explanation:
That is a tough question. For a time, about 50 years, Athens had a direct democracy in which citizens (only those eligible which were adult male citizens) directly voted on legislation and executive bills. It was more democratic than our representative government today in America, but it is hard to say whether it was a "full" democracy or not without the definition of a "full" democracy provided. I hope with the information I have given you can determine whether they did or not.
<span>The fact that certain psychological effects appear to shrink over time is called the decline effect.
When something diminishes in power, or shrinks over time (like certain psychological effects in this case), it refers to the decline effect - it means that these is less of something, or it becomes weaker in power.</span>
