My Country – Douglas C. Macintosh Born in Canada, Douglas C. Macintosh went to the University of Chicago and then studied theology at Yale. During World War I, he served as a chaplain in the Canadian Army. But in the 1920s, he sought naturalization in the United States. However, they denied the application upon the …
My Country – The Direct Primary On May 23, 1903, Wisconsin proposed a direct primary law, which voters approved in 1904. Other states had made attempts to regulate primaries but Wisconsin became the first on a state-wide level. Robert La Follette led the fight in Wisconsin. He began to fight against the political machine in …