CAS PO 111 Study Guide - Slaughter-House Cases, The Federalist Papers, Conditionality

• School: Boston University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: CAS PO 111
• Professor: Graham Wilson

Document Summary

Hobbes: leviathan/state of nature environment/externalities: government must keep pollution at bay, even if it means lesser profit or more work goals of government: economy, environment, education, order, defense, public services public goods: things that government provides for everyone. Social security, medicare, medicaid: biggest expense of the government, example of government providing services fourth amendment: right to privacy. Progressive era: early 1900s, government protecting people from big business. New deal: fdr, government got bigger; more regulation/ established huge programs. Great society: lbj, more government programs growth of federal government: due to aging population, urbanization, terrorism, etc. John winthrop: city on a hill, exceptionalism from early on. American exceptionalism: idea that america is different and superior to everyone else- qualitatively different; distinctly. American; rights, equality, democracy democracy: socialism: fails in the us because we never had one; never really had that much of a working class like the miners in uk/ higher standard of living, americans are all too different to.