POLI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Puritans, Individualism
1 Sep 2016
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Lecture 3: more important to be free than everything to be equal, bill of rights ratified in 1791, the framers intended to keep us free from government infringements, which is more important freedom from or freedom to. No discrimination: we turn a blind eye to freedom of liberty and equality. Popular consent, majority rule, and popular sovereignty: popular consent. Governments derive power by consent of the governed. We are governed because we allow ourselves to be governed: majority rule. Only when the majority of citizens agree with the new law or official: popular sovereignty. Ethical principles are part of nature and can be understood by reason. Community focus: traced to puritans, linked to unalienable right. Rights that cannot be taken away from us. Religious faith and religious religious conflict motivation from immigration o: colonists sought freedom of religion. Did not want to grant it to others: religious freedom enshrined in the constitution. The changing american people: racial and ethnic composition.
