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Voter fraud today is very rare, but much talked-about in America. Was it, in fact, actually very common in the machine politics era, say the 1890s?

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Can you compare and contrast the "cotton diplomacy"/"King Cotton" of the American South in Civil War times to the 1973 oil embargo by OPEC? Both seem to be diplomacy via embargo and I wonder how they compare.

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How did sectoral bargaining arise in some parts of Europe? Why do we have enterprise bargaining instead in Anglophone countries?

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Political parties of the past usually had a "party organ" newspaper, but afaik the Democrats and Republicans of today don't. Did they ever? If so when did this change?

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Did political machines really engage in widespread voter fraud?

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Who are some technically low-level government officials who wielded disproportionate amounts of power, and how did they achieve that?

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What was the impact of direct election of Senators on state government elections?

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When were each of the seven sacraments adopted by the church, before they were codified? I have heard marriage was a late addition, wondering about the others.

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Can you compare/contrast the postwar American consolidation of farms to the collectivization of farms in Communist countries?

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Voter fraud today is very rare, but much talked-about in America. Was it, in fact, actually very common in the machine politics era, say the 1890s?	2
Can you compare and contrast the "cotton diplomacy"/"King Cotton" of the American South in Civil War times to the 1973 oil embargo by OPEC? Both seem to be diplomacy via embargo and I wonder how they compare.	2
How did sectoral bargaining arise in some parts of Europe? Why do we have enterprise bargaining instead in Anglophone countries?	2
Political parties of the past usually had a "party organ" newspaper, but afaik the Democrats and Republicans of today don't. Did they ever? If so when did this change?	2
Did political machines really engage in widespread voter fraud?	2
Who are some technically low-level government officials who wielded disproportionate amounts of power, and how did they achieve that?	1
What was the impact of direct election of Senators on state government elections?	1
When were each of the seven sacraments adopted by the church, before they were codified? I have heard marriage was a late addition, wondering about the others.	1
Can you compare/contrast the postwar American consolidation of farms to the collectivization of farms in Communist countries?	1