Standard Prompt Flashcards
Experiment of Living
Definiiton: An “experiment in living” occurs when an individual lives as he or she wishes, regardless of whether it offends other people or upsets cultural traditions.
live our life as we see free.
Importance:
* Giving people the freedom to live and think as they wish allows each individual to meet his or her potential, and is the engine that allows society to flourish.
* Cultural and societal advancement ultimately comes from individual creativity.
-Marketplace of ideas (free speech)
Argument for Laize faire government
The Hecklers Veto
**Definition: ** When the government suppresses speech due to the hostile reaction of the crowd
-Feiner V New York
Importance:
-In class it was connected to the Harm principle when we learned how far free speech can extend before it incites panic in a crowd violating the harm principle.
-Limitations for free speech and the harm principle applying to the the incitation of the crown,
Soft power
Definition:
Using persuasion of shared values, culture, and interests to appeal and attract to enact change.
Importance:
-Relating to international relations and how states use a mix of soft and hard power for self preservations of a state to achiece states interests.
-Soft power is a piece of smart power
Thomas Hobbes
**Definition: **English political Philospher
Lived throight the english civil war
Disorder was his greatest fear, he theorized the state of nature which people have total freedom but complete insecurity.
Social contracts
-Influenced later political scientist
Significance: Governments rise to escape the state of nature, and power is delegated to the states to provide order and stability.
-Justification of government and the need for a strong government
Skokie, Illinois
A predominent Jewish community where Neo-Nazis wanted to march.
*Under mills principle should Neo-Nazis be allowed to march in Skokie IL.
* Mill: people should engage in experiments of living. Only limitation is the Harm Principle.
* Free speech is essential. No one is infallible or has a monopoly on the truth. We find truth by allowing all ideas to be expressed and then debating them.(marketplace of ideas)
Japanese Internment
Defition:
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and the us fears of invasion of West Coast.
Japanese americans were forced into internment camps witought
Immediate accusations that approximately 130,000 Japanese-Americans present security threat.
Importance:
Ill humors and the court cant protect against them.
In Japanese internment cases, the court did a poor job standing up to public pressure and protecting the rights of the minority. They the Roosevelt administration do what it wishes. Shows courts may not be able to wthstand illhumors and racial prejudices.
The Ethnic (or nativist) conception of American National Identity
**Definition: **Ethnic definition of national identity: based upon common descent, language, religion, shared history, geographic place.
Nativist view: Being “American” requires cultural conformity, speaking English, Christianity.
Importance:
American national identity has influened immigration policy.
Disputes about who is–or who can be – American fuel debates over immigration, voting and government benefits and in general create chaos.
Max Weber
German Sociologist
founder father of modern social sciences
Definition:
Believed that a state is a human community that successfully uses the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.
Legitimate use of power: Assumed to be authorized or appropriate.
Importance:
guided US foreign policy
Legitimatacy of a state is crucial for its stability. The sources of stability is tradition, charisma, and legal, it is in the hands of the people to keep
guided US foreign policy
First past the post system method of electing representatives
Define: Candidates run in single member districts and candidates with the plurality of votes wins the election.
Importance:
* Allows for tyranny of the majority
* Winning party is over-represented in legislature
Tyranny of the majority
Definition:The risk that the majority will use its control over government in a democracy to oppress the minority
Importance:
shows how weak the democratic government can be
When ill humors pass throught society the majority wil use its power to opress the minority, madison believed that the courts are best suited in withstanding ill humors and protecting minorityes from the tyranny of the majority.
