Upload File

what are governments for?. what are governments? 19 th century: night watchman states › provide...

  • Home
  • Documents
  • WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?. What are governments? 19 th Century: night watchman states › Provide law and order, defense, protect property 20 th Century:
12
WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?

Upload: duane-cummings

Post on 20-Jan-2016

216 views

Category:

Documents


1 download

Report

Tags:

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?. What are governments? 19 th Century: night watchman states › Provide law and order, defense, protect property 20 th Century:

WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?

Page 2: WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?. What are governments? 19 th Century: night watchman states › Provide law and order, defense, protect property 20 th Century:

What are governments? 19th Century: night watchman states

› Provide law and order, defense, protect property

20th Century: Police state and welfare states› Welfare state: from Bismarck to US

However, Western Europe focuses on health equality, US focuses on equality of opportunity and education

Welfare states have grown into regulatory states because governments have become large and inefficient

Page 3: WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?. What are governments? 19 th Century: night watchman states › Provide law and order, defense, protect property 20 th Century:

Reformation and Enlightenment Church being

questioned-as was divine right

Martin Luther-focused on individual rights and right to worship God directly

Page 4: WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?. What are governments? 19 th Century: night watchman states › Provide law and order, defense, protect property 20 th Century:

Locke vs Hobbes Thomas Hobbes believed

the state’s only job is to stop disorder, protect against war; actually encouraged democratic thought while defending royal absolutism

John Locke believed the state’s job is to protect property, commerce and economic growth

Page 5: WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?. What are governments? 19 th Century: night watchman states › Provide law and order, defense, protect property 20 th Century:

Locke vs. HobbesIssue Locke: Second Treatise on

GovernmentHobbes: Leviathan

Human nature and natural law

Man is by nature a social animal and they have an ability to know right and wrong and what is theirs and someone else’s

Man is not by nature a social animal, society only exists through the state and property only exists through the state

The State of Nature

Men were honest, and while insecure it was peaceful, good and pleasant

No society, man lives in continual fear of death; life is solitary, poor, short

The Social Contract

We give up our right to ourselves exact retribution for crimes in return for impartial justice

If you shut up and do as your told, you have right not to be killed

Violation of Social Contract

If a ruler seeks absolute power, he is in a state of war with citizens and they have a right to kill the ruler

No right to rebel; ruler’s define good and evil

Role of the State

The only role of the state is to ensure that justice is being done

Whatever the state does is just by definition

Adapted from www.jim.com/hobbes.htm

Page 6: WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?. What are governments? 19 th Century: night watchman states › Provide law and order, defense, protect property 20 th Century:

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract Freedom of

Thought and Action

All citizens could and should join in the making of laws agreed on by the basis of the general will

Page 7: WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?. What are governments? 19 th Century: night watchman states › Provide law and order, defense, protect property 20 th Century:

Other functions of governments

1. Community and nation building teaching common

language, heritage, values, symbols, myths, identity

2. Security and order Internal and external

security

Page 8: WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?. What are governments? 19 th Century: night watchman states › Provide law and order, defense, protect property 20 th Century:

Other functions

3. Protecting property and other rights Without protections of

property, people won’t work to create sustained economic growth

4. Promoting economic efficeincy and growth to prevent economic failure Provide public goods (national

defense, clean air, parks) Externalities---natural monopolies

Page 9: WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?. What are governments? 19 th Century: night watchman states › Provide law and order, defense, protect property 20 th Century:

Other functions 5. Social justice

Create level playing field through redistribution

6. Protect the weak Children Aged Disabled Animals Environment

Page 10: WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?. What are governments? 19 th Century: night watchman states › Provide law and order, defense, protect property 20 th Century:

Critics of governments

Anarchists Communitarians

Believe governments destroy communities

Libertarians Individualists

Governments violate basic rights of people

Page 11: WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?. What are governments? 19 th Century: night watchman states › Provide law and order, defense, protect property 20 th Century:

Other criticisms of government Creates economic inefficiency---

government has too much involvement in the economy

Government is good for private gain---common in poor societies where politics is the path to wealth

Government protects vested interests---the larger the government, harder to change

Page 12: WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS FOR?. What are governments? 19 th Century: night watchman states › Provide law and order, defense, protect property 20 th Century:

Alternatives

Markets Libertarians argue

that less government is more government

Voluntary Coordination Anarchists would

like to see the office holders closer to the people and more opportunities for people to participate in decision making


19 th Century Victorian Furniture 1830-1901 19 th Century 1J. Byrne 2015

Problems Teenagers Face: Modesty. Modest Clothing Styles Change 19 th Century 20 th Century

Household: Authority & Violence. Household: Background Info (16 th -17 th century England) (1) Household = governments in miniature (rulers & servants)

A Classroom in the 19 th Century A Classroom in the 20 th Century

The belgian congo THE BELGIAN CONGO The Late 19 th Century The Early 20 th Century The Late 19 th Century The Early 20 th Century

Nomadic heritage (before the 10-th century) Renaissance upheaval (15-th century) Turkish period (16-17-th centuries)

Rise of Industrialism End of 19 th century, beginning of 20 th century U.S. became industrialized End of 19 th century, beginning of 20 th century U.S

The Age of Discovery Early 15 th Century to 17 th Century

18 th Century

Geography of Its History Chinese 2 nd century Bagdad (8 th ?) Spain & Sicily (10 th – 12 th century) France & Germany (15 th century, printing revolution)

Art of the Late 19 th Century and early 20 th Century

20 th Century vs. 21 st Century Education

15 TH CENTURY FARMING 18 TH CENTURY FARMING THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

Baroque Late 16 th Century to Early 18 th Century

Governing ideas 20 th Century History. Formation of Government Governments first came about shortly after people became settled and sought a way to protect

Mies Van Der Rohe Modernism Late 19 th Century/Early 20 th Century

Chapter 13: The Renaissance & Reformation 14 th century -17 th century

Epidemic Diseases of the 19 th Century. The Demographic Context 19 th century experienced explosion of endemic & epidemic diseases19 th century experienced

19 th and 20 th Century

18 th century is about human reason 19 th century is about emotion

Polynesia 19 th Century and 21 st Century

van Leeuwenhoek (17 th century) de Graaf (17 th century) Early 19 th century – blending theory

Twelfth-Century Knights. 13 th -Century Knight (Crusader

The 20 th Century: The people’s century

Furniture Design Influences: 18 th Century Europe Early 19 th Century Europe Early 19 th Century North America Mid 19 th Century Anglo-American Late 19

Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment c. Late 16 th century – 18 th century

14 th century

Modern Art 109 From mid-19 th century to mid-20 th century

EUROPE OF THE 18 TH CENTURY. SOCIETY OF THE 18 TH CENTURY

Empowering Governments to steer the 21st Century

English Poetry Level III 17 th -Century Poetry 18 th -Century Poetry Romantic Poetry

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL = 16 TH CENTURY DUTCH REPUBLIC, FRANCE, ENGLAND = 17 TH CENTURY

18 th -19 th Century Russia

Industrial West Chapters 23 and 24. Changes in the mid 18 th century 1. Cultural Challenged governments (full religious freedom) Enlightenment

The Enlightenment Late 17 th century- most of 18 th century (1600s-1700s)