Protecting our freedoms. Our political and economic rights are the foundation of our democracy and capitalist economy. Without them, we’d be nothing.
We often think of our rights as a protection against the heavy hand of government, but we shouldn’t ignore the contribution that the people through their government have made in expanding those rights since the early days of the republic, when they applied only to white men with property.
Liberals who look fondly upon the government as a benevolent force often do so because the federal government was on their side in the great battles to abolish slavery and to extend rights to African-Americans, women, Native Americans, immigrants, workers, gays and many others. Liberals don’t like big government; they like a good and just government. For their part, conservatives want a government that enforces property rights and protects us against tyranny.
Although this question is opinionated, I believe that a government is absolutely mandatory to have a successful society. You simply cannot count on your citizens to agree on everything and all obey laws. It is human nature to want something for nothing, which is what laws are in place to prevent. You also would not have any form of protection such as a military, which means your society would get taken over by someone wot ha government very, very quickly. To put it short, yes, a government is 100% required.<span />
They became richer and wealthier off the resources of the lands they colonized
he made the government more lawful. hope this helps
George W. Bush's environmental policies during his presidency weren't that succesfull to begin with. On his presidential campaign he promised tu reduce carbon dioxide emissions by a considerable amount and a year after he won, he backed down on that promise claiming that carbon dioxide was not a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and that restricting it, it would cause energy prices to go up.
In 2001, he got out of the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that required nations to reduced their greenhouse emissions and even the administration views on global warming were really controversial. They acknowledged it but they claim that it was because of natural causes instead of man made.
On the other hand, under Barack Obama's presidency, the largest marine reserve in the world was established, but to be fair, it was started by Bush's administration, albeit in a much smaller scale. He rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline, voted against Bush's CLean Skies act, raised the fuel efficiency standards and invested in green energy during the Great Recession.
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