Government: Is America Becoming More Unequal?
03/17/2017
Section One:
Government -The means by which a society organizes itself and allocates authority in order to accomplish collective goals and provide benefits that the society as a whole needs. The goals of the governments are to accomplish economic prosperity for the nation, secure national borders, and the safety and well-being of citizens. Governments also provide benefits for their citizens. There are different types of benefits that government provides but it depends on the country. The common benefits that the government usually provides are as education, health care, and an infrastructure for transportation. Government creates a structure but people can still make their needs and opinions known to public officials. This is the …show more content…
Is America becoming more and more unequal?
Our founders foresaw America to become unequal because society would naturally divide itself, Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist about “the very few and the many.” James Madison blamed this condition on the Unequal faculties of acquiring property in every society. Consequently, it is useless to control the rich since affluence is an inner potential. The effect of Unequal societies is not only the diseases of poverty, but also diseases of affluence such as obesity and cancer and many more. Finally, though it is true that the rich are getting richer, it is also true that affluence is now more widespread.
1. Do we need government according to HOBBES AND …show more content…
How has American federalism and democracy evolved or changed over the 240 years? Explain thoroughly and pay close attention to the role of the United States Supreme Court in the expansion of the national government's authority and power and expansion of suffrage for all.
American federalism was always a dynamic institutional arrangement rather than a fixed statically by the U.S. Constitution. First, since the first 75 years of American development were marked by the constitutional and political conflicts about American federalism, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall and their Federalist colleagues proposed an expansive interpretation of federal authority, while Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Spencer Roane and their partisan allies insisted that the American union was just a confederation in which power and sovereignty remained with the states. Second, Cooperative federalism showed American intergovernmental relations during the 1950s and the 1960s. This cooperative federalism manifested in the grant-in-aid, a system by which the federal government uses its greater financial resources to give money to the states to pursue mutually agreed-upon goals, for example the building of the interstate highway system in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. The federal government supplied up to 90 percent of the cost, and gave technical assistance to the states in building the highways, and, generally, set standards for the new roads. The highways,
Section One:
Government -The means by which a society organizes itself and allocates authority in order to accomplish collective goals and provide benefits that the society as a whole needs. The goals of the governments are to accomplish economic prosperity for the nation, secure national borders, and the safety and well-being of citizens. Governments also provide benefits for their citizens. There are different types of benefits that government provides but it depends on the country. The common benefits that the government usually provides are as education, health care, and an infrastructure for transportation. Government creates a structure but people can still make their needs and opinions known to public officials. This is the …show more content…
Is America becoming more and more unequal?
Our founders foresaw America to become unequal because society would naturally divide itself, Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist about “the very few and the many.” James Madison blamed this condition on the Unequal faculties of acquiring property in every society. Consequently, it is useless to control the rich since affluence is an inner potential. The effect of Unequal societies is not only the diseases of poverty, but also diseases of affluence such as obesity and cancer and many more. Finally, though it is true that the rich are getting richer, it is also true that affluence is now more widespread.
1. Do we need government according to HOBBES AND …show more content…
How has American federalism and democracy evolved or changed over the 240 years? Explain thoroughly and pay close attention to the role of the United States Supreme Court in the expansion of the national government's authority and power and expansion of suffrage for all.
American federalism was always a dynamic institutional arrangement rather than a fixed statically by the U.S. Constitution. First, since the first 75 years of American development were marked by the constitutional and political conflicts about American federalism, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall and their Federalist colleagues proposed an expansive interpretation of federal authority, while Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Spencer Roane and their partisan allies insisted that the American union was just a confederation in which power and sovereignty remained with the states. Second, Cooperative federalism showed American intergovernmental relations during the 1950s and the 1960s. This cooperative federalism manifested in the grant-in-aid, a system by which the federal government uses its greater financial resources to give money to the states to pursue mutually agreed-upon goals, for example the building of the interstate highway system in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. The federal government supplied up to 90 percent of the cost, and gave technical assistance to the states in building the highways, and, generally, set standards for the new roads. The highways,