Answer
Protect the people from government abuse
Explanation:
They were afraid of large numbers of Jews coming in from (in the case of the St. Louis) Germany. 900 people is a lot of people but it would only be the tip of the iceberg if people were allowed to cross the Atlantic and go into the United States. There was a quota of how many people could come in and the US wanted to keep to the quota system.
The United States (at the time of the St. Louis sailing) was neutral, so they also didn't want to endanger that neutrality.
The collapse of the world economy during the Great Depression had a deleterious effect on the Ethiopian economy . Prices for ... The new emperor now moved to advance his policies of modernizing Ethiopia and consolidating power in his own hands . ... While the constitution did allow for broadened political participation , it nevertheless did little to dilute the emperor ' s nearly absolute political authority .
Machiavelli believed in political activity should not be restricted by moral principles. He thought this because he thought it should be free from morality. He thought that politics should write its own rules and be free from morality.