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What is democracy?
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Constraints upon the individual
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First reason why we trade freedom for governmental constraints
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1. preserve life (our own); Hobbes's makes the argument that we can do more together than on our own
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Second reason why we trade freedom for governmental constraints
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2. protect property
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Locke's view on property and government
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- Locke has a charitable view of humans- but argues that property is the source of conflict but gives us each the potential to know good
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Locke's fundamentals of classical liberalism
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- Locke's view of government are night watchers protecting and enforcing contracts but gov is kept in chains by which everything else is not gov's problem but our own
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Who was the founder of capitalism?
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- Adam Smith- Wealth of Nations: the greatest benefit to the greatest #
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The third reason why we trade freedom for governmental constraints
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- provide collective/ public goods
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Collective good
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Something that provides benefits to everyone but is nothing that the individual can pay or is willing to do
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Enlightened self-interest
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Doing what's good for the community
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4th reason why we trade freedom for governmental constraints?
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- to ensure equality- all of us believe in some level of equality- more debate about this than anything
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5th reason why we trade freedom for governmental constraints?
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- to ensure and protect morality and traditional values
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The 5 principles of democracy do what?
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Binds us as a nation
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What is the 1st principle of democracy?
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- freedom= individual liberty- measure of how much you believe in democracy
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What is the 2nd principle of democracy?
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- popular sovereignty - sovereign= recognizing no higher authority- popular= everybody not individual- laws are legitimate only to the extent that they represent the informed consent of the people- it is our responsibility to be informed
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3rd principle of democracy
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- political equality- we all believe in some minimal measurement of equality
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