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Unit 1 - Foundations of Government

TARGET 1.5 TO WHAT ENDS?:

GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY

• What is the Ultimate goal of government?

• What purpose does government serve? • LAW AND ORDER

• NATIONAL SECURITY

• ECONOMIC GROWTH AND STABILITY (Gallup poll - 2010)

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1.5 To What Ends?1.5 To What Ends?

1.5 To What Ends• LAW AND ORDER

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What happens when Law and Order break down? Mogadishu Somalia

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1.5 To What Ends?• NATIONAL SECURITY…

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Echelon... Sweeps up and analyzes communications around the world!!

1.5 To What Ends?

• NATIONAL SECURITY… NSA - Domestic Eavesdropping

• NY Times Report – Bush Admin• Guardian – Obama Admin

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1.5 To What Ends?• ECONOMIC GROWTH AND STABILITY…

The Great Depression

Expansion of Government

Size and Scope of Government

1.5 To What Ends?• The legitimate object of government is to do for a community

of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot do so well for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. But in all that people can individually do for themselves, government ought not to interfere

» Abraham Lincoln, 1854.

• THE SIZE AND SCOPE OF GOVERNMENT (CNN) • 10 TRILLION & COUNTING

Democrats v. Republicans Social Programs v. Defence Programs

• Not as clear cut as it seems!!

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