How do national parks fit in with muir's ideas about preservation?

John Muir thought that the parks should be preserved for poor people as well as rich. Thus, Americans of all sorts shared the same need for getting back in touch with nature. Though Recreation on National Parks is commonly expressed purpose of the parks which usually means outdoors exercise in the form of hiking, camping, fishing or boating, it fits on John Muir understanding that recreation should be a re-creating of our inner selves through immersion in nature. He wrote in his book of “Our National Parks” on 1901 that the parks should offer winldness which is another word for nature and that wildness is a necessity. Moreover, he belived that a nation of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people seek in the parks an escape from the vice of over-industry and the deadly apathy of luxury. 

fourteenth amendment

                the united states presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on tuesday, november 5, 1912. the election was a rare four-way contest.

                incumbent president william howard taft was renominated by the republican party with the support of its conservative wing. after former president theodore roosevelt failed to receive the republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the progressive party (nicknamed the "bull moose party"). it nominated roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states. democrat woodrow wilson was finally nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, to the support of william jennings bryan, the three-time democratic presidential candidate who still had a large and loyal following in 1912. eugene v. debs, running for a fourth time, was the nominee of the socialist party of america.

                wilson won the election, gaining a large majority in the electoral college and winning 42% of the popular vote, while roosevelt won 27%, taft 23% and debs 6%. wilson became the only elected president from the democratic party between 1892 and 1932, and the second of only two democrats to be elected president between 1860 and 1932. this was the last election in which a candidate who was not a republican or democrat came second in either the popular vote or the electoral college, and the first election in which all 48 states of the contiguous united states participated.

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