POLS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Positive Liberty, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Glass Ceiling
20 Sep 2016
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Of negative and positive freedom in conflict: affordable care act (obamacare) Of negative freedoms in conflict: working on the sabbath. Of equality for different groups in conflict: affirmative action. Effort to get women to break glass ceiling. Balance: only get abortions up to a certain point in pregnancy. Restrict donations so rich organizations can"t have more influence (equality) Aimed at making order: establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for common defense, promote general welfare (preamble) Articles of confederation set up weak national government disorder and insecurity: no power to national government, every state had to agree to give 3580$ to national government. Different states issued different money: can"t use other state"s money in different states. States wanted all the power: fear of powerful national government that will become tyrannical. 09/08/16 lecture: however, weak government can"t keep order. Washington and hamilton favored strong national government: framers of constitution had distrust in democracy, nothing in preamble about democracy.
