Unlike the Tories, Labour believes that the state should have ultimate control over the running of the country. Labour’s reputation is very different to the Tories’, as they are said to benefit the working class – hence the party name ‘Labour’ which stands for the everyday labouring man. Whilst at first it seems like benefiting the working class is so much better than benefiting the upper class, by scratching the backs of the rich, the Tories are able to generate more money – from generous donations – for the government to spend or invest. Also, during the periods when Labour have been the elected government, they have failed to benefit the working class, as they believe in taxing most things, whereas the Tories believe you should earn your own keep within reason. Traditionally, the Tories come from a background of rich and well-off families.
It could be argued that there are multiple factors that could be argued to be the primary cause of the American Revolution. These factors include social, economic, and political causes, all of which branch out into far more intricate categories. However, a major precursor of the revolution was the tyrannical control with which Britain treated the Americans as an inferior people, mainly through absurd taxes. The colonists began to see the economic restraints that Britain’s laws placed on their lives. Americans grew to believe that the many taxes were levied for the enhancement of British capital at the expense of American welfare.
3). Because of this, even though the third estate vastly outnumbered the other two, they only counted as one vote, and were easily overpowered by the first and second estates. Being forced to live in these conditions, and being unable to advance to an upper estate, caused France’s middle and lower class to want a revolution. Another cause of the French Revolution was that the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers became known by the members of the middle and lower class (Doc.4). One Idea of British philosopher John Locke was that every man had basic rights, such as life, liberty, and property, which they could not be denied.
Nick Bennett AP US “Factions” DBQ After the American Revolution America struggled in ideas, compensation in debt, and compromising of ideas. The differences that many expressed made the division of government into two political parties inevitable. President George Washington warned that creating political parties would divide the American people apart. Despite his warning, two political parties arose from the different opinions expressed throughout politics. Hamilton and Jefferson’s plans differed opinionated, economically, and politically.
Haylee Michael 11/5/11 Ap US- Chapter 5 essay The “Framers” of our Constitution are looked at through two different spectacles; those who believe these men had our nation in consideration, and those who say the Constitution was a way to enhance their financial stability. Although, most of these men were of money, power, and property, they have still sacrificed for our country to benefit us as a whole. There is no saying that just because these men were already of wealth, that they would create the Constitution just to ensure it. In reality, it was a benefit that these were the men that wrote it; we cannot expect the poor in our society to be the framers, when these were the men of highest education. Without the Constitution America
It is often considered that the Democratic party is more for the people and the Republican party is for the wealthy and those able to provide for themselves through free enterprise. Based upon economics, the Republican party feels as though the United States has established its dominance and greatness through free enterprise. They believe that innovation and economic growth has come from it. The Democratic party views the economy as too complicated for the everyday person hence why they feel the government should aid in all business decisions through the establishment of labor unions. The main contrast here is that
Marxists especially claim that liberal democratic governments favour disproportionately the interests of well funded, well organised pro-capitalist pressure groups because governments depend for their very survival on the profitability and efficiency of private capitalism on which in turn levels of employment, living standards and economic growth depend. Governments are therefore unlikely to introduce policies which are not supported by private enterprise. Furthermore pro-capitalist pressure groups are likely to be granted insider status which means that their negotiations with government are often secret which undermines both their own and the government’s accountability to the general public. Furthermore most pressure groups, apart from trade unions, are joined mainly by relatively affluent middle class people and most pressure group leaders [who may not be chosen by especially democratic methods] are even more likely to be middle class although we cannot automatically assume that pressure groups’ middle class members and leaders will not attempt to represent the interests of other social groups. However these points taken together do suggest that the poor and otherwise disadvantaged groups such as many disabled people and members of some ethnic minority groups are themselves relatively unlikely to be involved directly in pressure group activity and relatively more likely to be represented by under-funded outsider pressure groups which despite their best efforts may be unable to greatly influence government.
Economic/Political Analysis -Are the poor and the wealthy equally concerned about the “freedom from fear”? Compare and contrast both speeches to answer this question.- From President Franklins Roosevelts speech and Barack Obamas speech, the poor and wealthy people are fairly concerned about “freedome of fear.” There are quite a few things that a lot of people in this world are in fear of. President also said in his speech that we shouldn’t fear anything, but fear itself. It also, doesnt mean if you are not as rich in this world as others around you, you can not do the things wealthy people do to improve in the world. President Franklin Roosevelt also said in one of his speeches that, you dont have to be rich to be happy in life, happiness in life comes from accomplishment.
Because some populations are so high in certain areas, a large amount of the representatives elected to the House, anti-federalists feared, would be only the prominent and wealthy men of the area. This meant that even more power would be given to the government with the titles the men already had before being elected. Not only did the power of the government make the anti-federalists nervous, the lack of a bill of rights kept them agreeing with the constitution. They wanted a set rights guaranteed so that the central government didn’t have all the power that the anti-federalists were afraid of. The anti-federalist’s opposition to the constitution was
According to the Federalists, if the Constitution had parts to it that didn't work, it could be amended. This doesn't seem right, because if it was written by a group of Federalists, then clearly amending it will favor their views. At the Philadelphia Convention, the only type of people who could afford to make the trip was wealthy Americans, and the wealthy generally shared the views of Federalists. Federalists upheld that the Constitution provided a strong central government by the people; however, this was only partly true. The people of the United