These people were also referred to as hippies as well as counter culture. This was because while America was going places and improving, the "counterculture" wanted to stay right where they were. They didn't like the way America was going so they chose to live how America was.
D - the have elected officials who vote directly on issues.
Representative governments is where citizens vote to elect people to 'represent' their interests and concerns based on the whole community or society.
It was horrible, they were treated very badly as slaves?!
As I understand it, Laissez-faire ideology maintains that the "free market" is the best way to determine what businesses can and should do. This means that businesses, in competition with one another, should be free to determine their paths free from any government rules or regulations. The belief is that the competition among various businesses will ultimately result in the best outcomes for society in general - Adam Smith's "invisible hand". As part of this philosophy, workers should also be free to compete with each other and choose to work wherever they wish and this process will also result in the best results for the workers as well.
However, isn't there a huge assumption in this philosophy? Doesn't the whole justification of this belief depends on the condition that there is perfect competition and that any company and any worker have the equal ability to compete with one another?
What if there is no perfect competition? What if some companies have advantages - due to any of a whole array of reasons - that place them in a non-competitive position vis a vis their competitors? Without perfect competition then other companies are not necessarily able to compete with other companies that have certain advantages. If such a situation exists, then advantaged companies may have the ability to pursue a course that results in their private benefit, but not necessarily to the benefit of society as a whole. The same would apply to workers in that reduced competition among companies would result in decreased leverage for potential employees.
To recap, if the Laissez-faire ideology maintains the best economic policy for society as a whole, and it depends on there being perfect competition on an ongoing basis with minimal government intervention, doesn't it fall apart if there is less than the perfect competition?
William was a writer that posted a newspaper called "The Liberator". This was a abolitionist newspaper. He kept posting these until the end of slavery. The Lovejoy's also wrote things on slavery. Fredrick was the leader of the abolitionists he was a slave that had escaped from slavery and wrote a very important anti slavery writing. <span />
