This is a citation from Frenklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address in 1933. The Situation in the US in those days were challenging, mainly because of the Great Depression and its consequences, and because previous presidents did not manage to tackle that problem as well as they should. Unemployment was more than 20% and there was a widespread poverty.
So his words were a sign that he intends to be direct and open with the people in the US. He also wanted to calm the frustrated ones, and to act swiftly in order to show his decisiveness. So the best strategy was to calm the millions of american people who were quite close to the state of panic and distrupt.
The roles that local citizens have in government decision is
Unitary system : Citizens pretty much leaves everything to the central government
Federal system : citizens vote for representatives
Confederation system : citizens will have more power because this system pretty much relies on its local governments
hope this helps
According to your text, moral hypocrisy is the term Batson and his colleagues (2002) used to describe the tendency to appear moral while avoiding the costs of being so.
The Moral Hypocrisy phenomenon suggests that moral people are often the same people who fail to act morally. While people can see the morally right path, it doesn't guarantee that "moral people" will go to such path.
When Elizabeth I took over the throne of England, she inherited a virtually bankrupt state. So she introduced frugal policies to restore fiscal responsibilities. She cleared the regime of debt by 1574, and 10 years on the Crown enjoyed a surplus of £300,000.
