01:790:104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Iroquois, United States Constitution, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
29 Feb 2016
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What americans think about gov"t political eicacy: political eicacy: belief that one has the ability to inluence what the gov"t does. Citizenship: knowledge and participation: political knowledge: people will not believe they can afect the gov"t if they don"t know much about it, americans are not very knowledgeable about their gov"t. Is the gov"t needed: public goods are goods that beneit everyone but that no individual or group on its own can aford to supply: stable currency, defense, maintenance, etc. Native political inluence: iroquois confederacy formed constitution, great law of peace 1142, democracy rests on equality and freedom, political system inluenced locke and other philosophers, not acknowledged for contribution to the us constitution until 1988. Constitutional convention met in philly in summer 1787. Constitution signed in september by 39 of 55 men who participated in the debate. Sworn to secrecy and created the constitution.
