He basically said "It's all good in the hood. We just need to chill, we ain't got no problem. Nothing here to be scared of."
Victory over the Persians, defeat by Sparta began the golden age. It ended due to the Peloponnesian War.
Socialism
Socialism advocates that the means of production,
distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a
whole. This denies the individual the opportunity to make their own free
choices as it limits them politically and economically.
State Representation is based off the population of the state, since slaves weren't technically citizens, they were not counted in deciding how many representatives a state had. Slaves were a large majority of the population in the south. The south thought they were under represented and wanted slaves to be counted so representation was fair in their eyes.