Serve the people and protect them. the government should not harm or endanger the citizens.
The Chinese agreed to sign the Treaty of Nanjing which signified the end of the First Opium War in 1842 because of the potential for an even greater defeat through battle. The major goal of the treaty was to open up trade in China to the British which the British gained from the weakened Chinese Government.
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The power of The US government is constrained by the separation of powers and ... and the executive branch (the president) must consent for the United States to go to war. ... As the branch most responsive to the will of the people (who elect its ... candidates so that in the next Congress your interests are better represented.
Manifest Destiny is the belief that the US would one day expand across the whole American continent. So, with that in mind, it effected minorities because they were being pushed out of their lands as the US acquired the new territories.