To have as much government control and regulation to remain in power and make big decisions as a whole.
"give me your tired, your poor, your haddled masses yearing to breathe free wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send this, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside my golden door."
The Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers influenced them through the idea of democracy and people governing through parliaments and assemblies, while the European Philosophers influenced them through the ideas of Social Contract and human rights and things like that. This was mostly from Locke and Hobbes.
