What was the progressive era? what type of people were progressives?

A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United Stated from the 1890s to the 1920s.

Assemblies do not have written codes of laws. laws are matters for magistrates and courts, not assemblies. codes of law are things such as civil law, criminal law, and constitutional law. what assemblies have are procedures regarding debating, voting and other business they might carry out.  also note that rome had three assemblies: the assembly of the soldiers, the assembly of the tribes, and the plebeian councils.

The tried to make the government smaller by making the government smaller