01:790:104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Commerce Clause, Civil Liberties, Dual Federalism

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We favor government programs to promote equality of opportunity, but not equality of result: favor freedom over equality, results of our ideology: Separation of powers- checks and balances so no one faction could capture power and also so government action would be difficult. We like fragmentation and decentralization and we"re suspicious of aggregation or collectivization: we don"t like taxes, don"t raise taxes! Enlightenment; famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers: equality of opportunity vs equality of result: we favor equality of opportunity rather than equality of result. The combination of separation of powers with federalism makes for an extraordinary fragmentation, an inability to coordinate, and makes it harder to mobilize government for action. John locke: successor to hobbes; asserted the right to private property and the need for a government of laws and policies to protect that right. Jefferson used his ideas when writing the declaration of.

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