Election of 1912 Term Paper

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election of 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, supported by his own Progressive Party, advocated ideas based around Progressive reform. He called for a "pure democracy," or a government free of influence by special interests. He emphasized that government officials derived their authority from the people. He espoused that the people had the right to recall judicial decisions. He also believed that the people should have the right to amend the constitution, in order to make it more appropriate and applicable to current times.

Woodrow Wilson, with the backing of the Democratic Party, advocated the use of schools as centers for public forums.
More generally, he emphasized the need for public centers and forums to spark discussion, debate, and an active participation in democracy. He and his party called for antitrust measures and regulations, as well as an overall expansion of the national government's responsibilities while finding "non-bureaucratic and non-centralized ways to treat the nation's economic ills." Finally, they advocated law directed at curbing big business.

William Howard Taft, backed by the Republican Party, was the most,….....

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