Why do you think Paterson said the following? “We must follow the people; the people will not follow us.”

To show that representation of all people is require thus we have to follow what the people want, not what we want and to do so we can't have proportional representation.

Explanation:

2018 means 2018 ce or common era

there have been other eras too including bce, which included way more years.

when world war i broke out across europe in 1914, president woodrow wilson proclaimed the united states would remain neutral, and many americans supported this policy of nonintervention. however, public opinion about neutrality started to change after the sinking of the british ocean liner lusitania by a german u-boat in 1915; almost 2,000 people perished, including 128 americans. along with news of the zimmerman telegram threatening an alliance between germany and mexico, wilson asked congress for a declaration of war against germany. the u.s. officially entered the conflict on april 6, 1917.