In politics today there are two different models of how our elected representatives should actually behave when they get into elected office: one is trustee model and the other is delegate model. Trustee models hold that representatives should be allowed to use their own judgment when deciding upon how they will vote on particular legislation. They wil ideally consider both the facts and the views of their constituents, and are given the latitude to make their own final voting decisions, regardless of whether or not the majority agrees with this voting decisions. it is understood that the vooters trust that the representative will always vote for the best interest of his constituents, thus relieving the constituents of the hard work of learning about the issues and comunicating with the representatives.
Slavery was a natural part of the Southern economy even though very few of the population actually owned slaves. Slaves could be rented or traded or sold to pay debts, making them very useful to ranchers. The North didn’t seem to have much use for slaves due to their poor soil; therefor they could not understand why the South was against abolishing slavery. I don’t believe that this war could be avoided due to the issue of slavery. If America didn’t stand against slavery, then the slaves themselves would have eventually done so.
Indentured Servants vs. Slaves Sum Dang HIS/110 4-29-2013 Kimberlee Neitz Indentured Servants vs. Slaves There are several differences between slaves and indentured servants. Slaves had no choice about coming over to America and were often kidnapped to be sold as slaves in the America. Indentured servants were individuals who agreed to work without payment for another individual for an amount of time they agreed on, often more than a few years. Indentured servants by law were still free, they had basic civil rights. Often in debt or longing for passage to America would bring people to this kind of agreement.
In his commentary,(Gawthrop 2005) states that “as a government systems become more commonplace, the responsibility for promoting the ethical moral values of democracy rests most directly on the public managers and policymakers of democratic systems”. Scanlan believes that to uphold ethical principles in public administration is the concern of the political leaders, who make the laws and policies of the state, but these principles need to be morally implemented by the public service. Public officials must accept their role to distinguish the difference interested not of their own interest, but of the general public. One must also be able to
There was little communication between the handlers and the cargo. Sign language was used and sometimes the slaves guessed as to what they were supposed to do. The slaves were treated like cattle and the slave traders cared only about profit. As Harms states, the slave traders were taking a bigger risk than one may think. This took place during the age of the Enlightenment and people began to think more scientifically.
“Relatively few people called for its immediate abolition, but many, including some slave owners, expressed real concern over its morality as its utility.” (Kolchin 65) The people questioning slavery inquired about the morality of using slaves for their labor purposes. They, like many, based a lot of their arguments off
They know that slaves are no different from any other human being. The reason why they treat them like property is because they want to make more money by not giving the slaves wages. The last point that Douglass brings out to discuss is that slaves do all the labor of a man. This shows that a slave is a man because only men could do those labor. We cannot imagine an animal knowing how to do those labor.
But if we think about it, without the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act, things might have never of changed. African Americans could still be treated like slaves and not treated like human beings. America would still be a very segregated place. Freedom Summer was a very dark time in American history but all in all, America has turned out pretty good. It’s no doubt that America was not the most favorable place during this time period for most, if not all African Americans.
Slavery has become a popular discussion after the civil rights movement because it has been allowed and more socially accepted to deal with the issue. Before slavery was a popular discussion, Indentured Servitude is what used to be discussed and has now been replaced with the topic of slavery. Slavery is considered the owning of another human being. Being an indentured servant was kind of like a trade. What we do not know is that slavery and indentured servitude are very closely related on a continuum of coerced labor.
Whether it was in the Middle East, East Asia or America, everywhere had some type of slavery. The book “Slavery” states, “Slavery was very much a part of life in a classical society: in those days no one seemed to question whether it should or should not exist. (14)” Many slaves did not even know much about their family history or even their age. Booker T. Washington’s “Up from Slavery” is a narrative about his life as a slave. It talks about how upsetting it was for him to not know his age or much about his family.