test 1 Flashcards
“All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke
“Do not despise compromise, for it is the cement that keeps this country together.
Henry Clay
“In questions of power, then let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Government is too important to be a spectator sport.”
barbara jordan
“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
and so, my fellow Americans, ask NOT what your country can do for you; ask what YOU can do for your country.
john kennedy
“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
abe lincoln
“if the people are to be our governors, they must arm themselves with knowledge.”
james madison
“A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy… a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives,”
james madison
“A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
john stuart mill
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
george santayana
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause
teddy roosevelt
Alexis de Tocqueville’s wrote
democracy in america
Thomas Jefferson’s
declaration of independence
three papers with several authors
The bill of rights the constitution and the federalist papers
lincolns two important papers
gettysburg and 2nd inaugural address
belief in a minimal role for government and maximum individual rights and protection of property rights; government that governs least governs best
classical liberalism
belief in big enough government to solve people problems relating to justice and social issues and to blunt defects in capitalism. They want government to solve social problems caused by industrialization
modern liberalism
gradual social, political, and economic reform
progressive liberalism
seek creation of wealth, not redistribution, and they are for reform of entitlement programs, and they are for free trade strong national defense
neoliberals
more citizen voter involvement in decision making, and they wanted economic reforms that would strengthen government.
populism
belief in a minimal role for government; they distrust government and believe private efforts are more likely to improve society. They do not wish government to be very powerful or be very active, they wish low taxes to control government and its programs, and they are opposed to most restrictions on corporations and management.
traditional conservatism
place less emphasis on economics and capitalism and more on morals. They want to regulate individual behavior. Stop pornography, illegal drugs, abortion, homosexuals, affirmative action, school busing, job quotas, public secular schools in favor of public funded religious schools. They wish to censor all media content. They are vehemently opposed to any contraception in any form.
social conservatism
is skeptical of government’s ability to solve social and economic problems. It believes in strong defense and aggressive foreign policy, and is opposed to racial affirmative action. It focuses on creating wealth and is opposed to redistribution of wealth through welfare programs.
neo conservatism
it has some elements of anarchism and it wishes little to no government and opposes moral crime laws are opposed to welfare social safety net programs such as unemployment benefits, health, and retirement protections.
libertarianism
varies in thought, but is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state is undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful. It opposes authority and hierarchical organization in the conduct of human relations, and advocate stateless societies based on non-hierarchical voluntary associations.
anarchism
belief there is no limit to leaders power
authoritarianism
(belief that leaders should assert complete dominance over all individuals and institutions - even religions and the press
totalitarianism
an economic system where most property and businesses are privately owned and people work where ever they want and for whoever they want - your choice.
capitalism
Purpose of U.s constitution
To authorize government To outline structure of government To define & limit powers. To establish legal contract & identify rights of the people. To outline political affairs
