Thomas Jefferson stated, “That government is best which governs the least...” The Progressive movement theorist may not have agreed with Jefferson on that contention. The Progressive movement was a concern with reform. Which reforms? Short answer all of them; Progressive’s championed women’s suffrage, racial equality, worker rights, corporate greed, and political corruption. Progressives call for active governmental intervention to establish laws, ordinances and policies as corrective measures. The role and scope of government have expanded over the years. In 1982 the Justice Department failed to account for every federal law. They amassed a list of 3,000 criminal offense untimely failing to document all offenses. When asked about the results Ronald Grainer a Justice Departmental official who undertook the project stated
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That question has plagued scholars and theorist since the infancy of political science. Thomas Hobbes an English philosopher has theorized that it is the nature of man to engage in a conflict which is borne out of competing individual interest. His philosophy is that government is necessary to keep the inner beast of a man at bay, thus giving each man surrenders small liberties that society as a whole benefit. Thus, the primary role of government is maintaining the liberty of the individual while mitigating the negative aspects of man’s nature while providing the opportunity for him the opportunity to flourish. The United States has met its obligation as a governing body. It has enacted laws and legislations to mitigate racial biases and injustices. It enacted policies such as Affirmative action to level the playing field and provide economic justices to not only African-Amercian but to women and other minority groups. It has given individuals who have been victimized by discriminatory practices a form of redress through ligation under the Civil Rights Acts. Detractors will say that the U.S. has not done
That question has plagued scholars and theorist since the infancy of political science. Thomas Hobbes an English philosopher has theorized that it is the nature of man to engage in a conflict which is borne out of competing individual interest. His philosophy is that government is necessary to keep the inner beast of a man at bay, thus giving each man surrenders small liberties that society as a whole benefit. Thus, the primary role of government is maintaining the liberty of the individual while mitigating the negative aspects of man’s nature while providing the opportunity for him the opportunity to flourish. The United States has met its obligation as a governing body. It has enacted laws and legislations to mitigate racial biases and injustices. It enacted policies such as Affirmative action to level the playing field and provide economic justices to not only African-Amercian but to women and other minority groups. It has given individuals who have been victimized by discriminatory practices a form of redress through ligation under the Civil Rights Acts. Detractors will say that the U.S. has not done