Progressivism :: The Progressives

The progressive believed that by applying a to a greater extent un muff form of democracy they could in fact fix the already corrupt democracy especially at the state and city levels. The progressives believed that if given a chance the majority of ballotrs would elect honest respectable officials unlike those select by the corrupt political machine but to do this they needful people to vote. So they compiled numerous methods for increasing the erupticipation of the average citizen in political decisions. The secret ballot box, by using the method select by the Australians the voter would not be manipulated by the political ships company that would affect a voters decision by standing next to a ballot box and intimidating him or her. This method was first trustworthy by Massachusetts in 1888 and proved to be really everyday by 1910 all voting states adopted this method. The progressive governor of Wisconsin Robert La Follete introduced the method of guide primaries in which the majority vote would elect the caller candidates for the state and federal offices. This method was used to try to minimize the precedent of political bosses to try to keep the corrupt officials from gaining office once again. The direct election of state senators was also a plus for the progressives for many old age the senators had been selected by the vote of the state legislature. The corrupt state legislature would thus of course vote for the corrupt official for senate. After a fleck the senate begun to look like a club for the rich man. In 1913 the seventeenth amendment required all that all U.S senators be elected by the common vote. By calling for Initiative, referendum, and repudiate the Progressives conquered by initiative to take part in the process of having a legislature pass a bill, to allow voters to vote on proposed laws on their ballots by way of referendum, and finally recall which allowed voters to remove an unsatisfactory politician from office by ma jority vote before the end of his or her term.