The New Right believe that state benefits should be cut and social policy targeted to discourage family diversity and promote marriage and the nuclear family. Robert Chester (1985) recognises that there has been some increased family diversity in recent years. However, unlike the New Right he does not regard this as very significant, nor does he see it in a negative light. He argues that the only important change is a more from the dominance of the traditional or conventional nuclear family, to what he
What were the aims of the nationalists in Northern Ireland? The main aim of the nationalists was that they wanted Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to be unified as one country, Ireland. They thought that the country should not have been divided into two, and should stay the same as it was originally. They also think that the British army shouldn’t be in Ireland and so one of their aims is to get rid of it, mainly because of Bloody Sunday. They think that the army restricts their freedom and are seen as evil because they are affecting the Irish people’s lives with their presence as they are not letting them live how they want to.
Hamilton was an ardent believer that the states were incapable of uniting the people politically and economically. He feared the interests of the states would lead to chaos due to “an excess of the spirit of liberty, which has made the particular states show a jealousy of all power not in their own hands” (Morse, 1890). Hamilton was leery of state power because of how ineffective the Articles of Confederation were in promoting a national identity capable of defending the homeland and creating the basic foundation for economic development. Unlike many of his colleagues, Hamilton did not grow up a child of privilege and carried with him the stigma of being a bastard because his mother was previously married and his biological father abandoned the family. He grew up on the small Caribbean island of Nevis that “generated more wealth for Britain than all of her North American colonies combined” (Chernow, 2004).
Political figures across the world have argued that there is no alternative to the Global Free Market however Gray challenges this opinion using Russia and Asia countries where an American model of the free market simply don’t fit. He also conveys that the state is weakened by free markets and suggests the possible dangers of this. In the first chapter Gray sets the scene with a description of mid centaury England where the prime objective was to free economic life from political control. This change was called the Great Transformation; however Gray takes a negative stance on such transformation. He states immediately that although a free market might bring short term economic benefits, it brings social breakdown.
Historians have different opinions about the importance of events in Scotland in causing the English Civil War. While some historians state that Scotland was very important others highlight Ireland as a more important external reason for the conflict. Ann Hughes argues that the rebellion brought serious conflict to England, causing a military struggle that could not have been generated by English divisions (1998: p30). Although the Long Parliament was called due to the Scottish Rebellion, it was the sole reason for the civil war. The events in Scotland began with Charles introducing the English bible into Scotland, from there a religious protest developed and ultimately the National Covenant was set up.
This created a lack of unity throughout Russia and in order to tackle this issue, the Tsar imposed a policy called Russification. Russification was an attempt to make everybody living in Russia speak one language, Russian, and share cultural values. This created a great problem for the country as it caused a lot of discontent; people were proud of their hereditary cultures and didn’t want them to be taken away from them. Consequently, the Tsars call for Russification led to more extremism and anger towards the Russian government and was a great problem they faced. Russia was a religious orthodox country in the 1900s and the church greatly impacted the beliefs of followers.
The Anti-Federalists’ strongest argument, however, was that the Constitution lacked a Bill of Rights. The Anti-Federalists warned that without a Bill of Rights, a strong national government might take away the human rights won in the Revolution. They had great apprehension about the potential loss of sovereignty through the power given to the national government in the proposed Constitution and the resulting horrific effects that such a loss would have on the nation and the people as a whole. The Anti-Federalist belief was that through the integrity of state sovereignty, effective restraints would be in place to keep the national government from deteriorating into a despotic government thus protecting the liberties and freedoms of the people. Anti-Federalist felt that the Constitution gave more power to central government and less to the states.
Economics, politics and religion also can be motivating factors for separatism, such as when a group feels that wealth is being withheld or certain parties or religions are dominating a society or country. Another reason might be to right a historical wrong, such as when a group wants to reclaim land that it believes was wrongly taken by another group. Location can be a major reason for a people’s desire for separatism, the Scottish in the UK currently feels that the government does not represent them well and that a more local government would be more suited to their own needs for independence. Although they do have some level of autonomy where they have their own parliament some feel that they should take it further and become fully independent of the UK. Corsica, a French territory located to the south east of the mainland and west of Italy desires autonomy from France as it has a language difference, many signs on Corsica have had the French painted over in acts of defiance and the native Corsican language has been left untouched.
Hamilton and Jefferson’s plans differed opinionated, economically, and politically. Hamilton and his federalist standpoint were based on a strong central government, Strong national bank and an alliance with Britain. Jefferson however could be considered opposite. The anti-federalists opposed a strong central government and instead focused on a state government. They also opposed a national bank nervous it would give too much power to t he central government.
But that’s not the only reason religion caused the civil war, King Charles believed in the divine right. It was when the king/queen believes that god put them on the throne. So Charles took all the power because of this and Parliament didn’t want to go with his decision which contributes to the civil war. Also he made Scottish churches uses English prayer books which caused riots and England went to battle with Scotland. England lost.