“the national progressive party, committed to the principle of government by a self-controlled democracy expressing its will through representatives of the people, pledges itself to secure such alterations in the fundamental law of the several states and of the united states as shall insure the representative character of the government.” progressive party platform, 1912 33. the excerpt suggests that progressives in the early twentieth century most typically sought to (a) challenge political inequality (b) advocate a return to agrarianism (c) justify the inequality of wealth (d) oppose united states imperialism 34