Women were another vulnerable group because they were always paid at a lower rate than men. There was no safety net for people who fell into poverty other than resorting to the ‘workhouse’ which had been established to deal with cases of extreme poverty in Trade unions had little power as the Taff Vale Incident of 1901 showed and Friendly Societies could only provide a limited amount of help. Attitudes to poverty in the early 20th century were quite unsympathetic many politicians from both the Liberal and Conservative party felt that poverty came from personal laziness. Both parties had an attitude of “laissez-faire” i.e. non interference from the government.
Before only property owners with a certain franchise could vote whereas after all householders with property worth £10 or more per annum were allowed. These changes basically still only allowed the wealthy to vote as working class and vagrants still didn’t have the money to buy property and therefore could still not change how the country was run. So the change to the vote wasn’t too effective. Another big change the act enforced was the distribution of seats in parliament. Places like Cornwall and Sussex lost the amount of MP’s as they were known as rotten boroughs (boroughs that sent too many MP’s to parliament compared to the size of their constituency and population) and industrial towns like Manchester gained more MP’s which is what they needed as they were growing in size due to new factories.
This aided in causing the failure of the Parliament because with no real leader, no one could influence the masses or help to make decisions. Therefore, the Frankfurt Parliament became
This meant that every vote counted and the parliament was proportional to them. This led to many unstable coalitions making large or long term decisions difficult to make. The most important reason for the weakness of the liberal state was the political system itself. The political system used PR which meant that many parties weren't in office for very long. An example of this is how Giolitti was in office 5 separate times between 1892 - 1921.
The nation was quite poor from the Revolution and had loans from the French that it was unable to pay back. This was because the Confederation did not have the power to tax, the states were supposed to donate money to the government and as a result, when other states realized that some were not donating money, they refused to as well. Despite the lack of taxing for the nation, the states placed taxes on goods being traded in or through their territory from other states. However, trade was complicated by the fact that there was no national currency. A Virginia dollar could be worth more than a South Carolina dollar, or worth less than a New England gold coin.
He wanted them to be able to fix their problems themselves and let the government do more important jobs and have to worry about them less. He wanted them to become strong, independent people, but when America’s situation was as bad as it was nothing the people did could get them out of that situation. The government needed to step in and help them get out of the hole because they were too far in to pull themselves out. This concept had good intentions, but failed miserably. FDR’s Liberal ideas set new ground rules for the coming presidents to follow and his spirit and work ethic were going to be the top bar the next Presidents would have to compete with, even still
The United States military was used as a tool of economic diplomacy. ! Wilson: Wilson came into office with little foreign relation experience, however, was determined to base his policy on moral priciples rather than materialism to the selfish degree. He was very eager to encourage the process because he strongly believed that democracy was gaining strength throughout the world. !
This view is largely accredited because Pitt came into office in a difficult time but events around him seemed to benefit him rather well. Britain was entering the industrial revolution at the time, industry rose up and trade would boom due to expansion of the industries at home and abroad, the advancements of technology meant that Britain was going through a natural change that arguably Pitt was able to captain through leading to better fortunes. The natural opposition from the Whig party against the king led by Charles Fox meant that Pitt naturally had the Kings support against any opposition which could be thrown at him, the king would back him up. The American Revolution and his lack of connection to it meant that he was seen as a new politician not one of the previously failed governments who’s lack of control and rule in a situation. And lastly the regency crisis of 1788 meant that Pitt could use this to gain favour with the king and gather support from his own party and draw it away from the opposition.
Germany felt shunned by the rest of the world. Anyone that was involved in that event had a reputation. These issues have caused fights and discrimination that affected people's decisions- and those are just the aftereffects. In The Giver, there is no history, and though everyone seems to be connected to each other, there is not much emotion in people. People do work well as a community, but they are not much of a society.
Firstly there was lack of mass support since the Frankfurt Parliament was mostly made out of middle class people, with only one peasant and no workers. Therefore this overwhelming majority did not represent the people who were about 70% peasants. According thus to the demographics a revolution would fail because it would lack manpower, and instead of asking help from the peasants, the revolutionaries preferred to ask help from the rulers. Frankfurt Parliament has also been accused of wasting valuable time. Marxists argue that if the Parliamentarians, who were neither extreme nor violent, had taken faster action, Wilhelm IV and the other rulers would be unable to refuse the new state and its constitution.