Wednesday, November 30, 2011
ARE YOU A PROGRESSIVE?
This is a test to determine whether you are a progressive or not… Read the following paragraphs and see if you agree with them or not. One answer per CATAGORY please! FOR MY STUDENTS …2 PERCENT OF GRADE.. There is no right answer on this test. You may submit a essay on this subject as extra credit?
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!) Freedom and Liberty
That all men are created equal and that they have certain inalienable rights. All are also obliged to obey the natural law, under which we have not only rights but duties. We are obliged "to respect those rights in others which we value in ourselves?
A) Agree
B) Disagree
Freedom is not a gift of God or nature. It is a product of human making, a gift of the state. Man is a product of his own history,
A) Agree
B) Disagree
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2) The Purpose of Government
Civilization is indispensable for human well-being. Although government can be a threat to liberty, government is also necessary for the security of liberty.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
The individual was ready-made by nature. freedom is redefined as the fulfillment of human capacities, which becomes the primary task of the state.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
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3) Elected Officials
Government was to be conducted under laws, and laws were to be made by locally elected officials, accountable through frequent elections to those who chose them. The people would be directly involved in governing through their participation in juries selected by lot.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
The origin of the state is regarded, not as the result of a deliberate agreement among men, but as the result of historical development, instinctive rather than conscious; and rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
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4) God and Religion
Christians and Jews believed in the God of the Bible as the author of liberty but also as the author of the moral law by which human beings are guided toward their duties and, ultimately, toward their happiness.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
God was simply rejected as a myth. The state is the "perfection of humanity, the civilization of the world; the perfect development of the human reason and its attainment to universal command over individualism?
A) Agree
B) Disagree
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5) Limits on Government and the Integrity
That government was incompetent at directing man in his highest endeavors. The requirements of liberty, they thought, meant that self-interested private associations had to be permitted, not because they are good in themselves, but because depriving individuals of freedom of association would deny the liberty
A) Agree
B) Disagree
The state as divine and the natural as low, they no longer looked upon the private sphere as that which was to be protected by government. Instead, the realm of the private was seen as the realm of selfishness and oppression.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
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6. Domestic Policy
The civil law had to provide for the poor to have access to acquiring property by allowing the buying and selling of labor and property through voluntary contracts and a legal means of establishing undisputed ownership. The burden of proof was on government if there was to be any limitation on the free use of that property. Laws regulating sexual conduct aimed at the formation of lasting marriages so that children would be born and provided for by those whose interest and love was most likely to lead to their proper care, with minimal government involvement needed because most families would be intact.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
Government must protect the poor and other victims of capitalism through redistribution of resources, anti-trust laws, government control over the details of commerce and production: i.e., dictating at what prices things must be sold, methods of manufacture, government participation in the banking system, and so on.Government must become involved in the "spiritual" development of its citizens -- not, of course, through promotion of religion, but through protecting the environment ("conservation"), education (understood as education to personal creativity), and spiritual uplift through subsidy and promotion of the arts and culture.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
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7. Foreign Policy
Foreign and domestic policy were supposed to serve the same end: the security of the people in their person and property. Therefore, foreign policy was conceived primarily as defensive. Foreign attack was to be deterred by having strong arms or repulsed by force. Alliances were to be entered into with the understanding that a self-governing nation must keep itself aloof from the quarrels of other nations, except as needed for national defense. Government had no right to spend the taxes or lives of its own citizens to spread democracy to other nations or to engage in enterprises aiming at imperialistic hegemony.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
That a historical process is leading all mankind to freedom, or at least the advanced nations. Following Hegel, they thought of the march of freedom in history as having a geographical basis. It was in Europe, not Asia or Africa, where modern science and the modern state had made their greatest advances. The nations where modern science had properly informed the political order were thought to be the proper leaders of the world.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
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8. Who Should Rule, Experts or Representatives?
That laws should be made by a body of elected officials with roots in local communities. They should not be "experts," but they should have "most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society" (Madison). The wisdom in question was the kind on display which relentlessly dissected the political errors of the previous decade in terms accessible to any person of intelligence and common sense.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
That modern science had superseded the perspective of the liberally educated statesman. Only those educated in the top universities, preferably in the social sciences, were thought to be capable of governing. Politics was regarded as too complex for common sense to cope with. Government had taken on the vast responsibility not merely of protecting the people against injuries, but of managing the entire economy as well as providing for the people's spiritual well-being. Only government agencies staffed by experts informed by the most advanced modern science could manage tasks previously handled within the private sphere. Government, it was thought, needed to be led by those who see where history is going, who understand the ever-evolving idea of human dignity.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
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!) Freedom and Liberty
That all men are created equal and that they have certain inalienable rights. All are also obliged to obey the natural law, under which we have not only rights but duties. We are obliged "to respect those rights in others which we value in ourselves?
A) Agree
B) Disagree
Freedom is not a gift of God or nature. It is a product of human making, a gift of the state. Man is a product of his own history,
A) Agree
B) Disagree
____________________________________________
2) The Purpose of Government
Civilization is indispensable for human well-being. Although government can be a threat to liberty, government is also necessary for the security of liberty.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
The individual was ready-made by nature. freedom is redefined as the fulfillment of human capacities, which becomes the primary task of the state.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
_________________________________________
3) Elected Officials
Government was to be conducted under laws, and laws were to be made by locally elected officials, accountable through frequent elections to those who chose them. The people would be directly involved in governing through their participation in juries selected by lot.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
The origin of the state is regarded, not as the result of a deliberate agreement among men, but as the result of historical development, instinctive rather than conscious; and rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
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4) God and Religion
Christians and Jews believed in the God of the Bible as the author of liberty but also as the author of the moral law by which human beings are guided toward their duties and, ultimately, toward their happiness.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
God was simply rejected as a myth. The state is the "perfection of humanity, the civilization of the world; the perfect development of the human reason and its attainment to universal command over individualism?
A) Agree
B) Disagree
_________________________________________________
5) Limits on Government and the Integrity
That government was incompetent at directing man in his highest endeavors. The requirements of liberty, they thought, meant that self-interested private associations had to be permitted, not because they are good in themselves, but because depriving individuals of freedom of association would deny the liberty
A) Agree
B) Disagree
The state as divine and the natural as low, they no longer looked upon the private sphere as that which was to be protected by government. Instead, the realm of the private was seen as the realm of selfishness and oppression.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
__________________________________________________
6. Domestic Policy
The civil law had to provide for the poor to have access to acquiring property by allowing the buying and selling of labor and property through voluntary contracts and a legal means of establishing undisputed ownership. The burden of proof was on government if there was to be any limitation on the free use of that property. Laws regulating sexual conduct aimed at the formation of lasting marriages so that children would be born and provided for by those whose interest and love was most likely to lead to their proper care, with minimal government involvement needed because most families would be intact.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
Government must protect the poor and other victims of capitalism through redistribution of resources, anti-trust laws, government control over the details of commerce and production: i.e., dictating at what prices things must be sold, methods of manufacture, government participation in the banking system, and so on.Government must become involved in the "spiritual" development of its citizens -- not, of course, through promotion of religion, but through protecting the environment ("conservation"), education (understood as education to personal creativity), and spiritual uplift through subsidy and promotion of the arts and culture.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
__________________________________
7. Foreign Policy
Foreign and domestic policy were supposed to serve the same end: the security of the people in their person and property. Therefore, foreign policy was conceived primarily as defensive. Foreign attack was to be deterred by having strong arms or repulsed by force. Alliances were to be entered into with the understanding that a self-governing nation must keep itself aloof from the quarrels of other nations, except as needed for national defense. Government had no right to spend the taxes or lives of its own citizens to spread democracy to other nations or to engage in enterprises aiming at imperialistic hegemony.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
That a historical process is leading all mankind to freedom, or at least the advanced nations. Following Hegel, they thought of the march of freedom in history as having a geographical basis. It was in Europe, not Asia or Africa, where modern science and the modern state had made their greatest advances. The nations where modern science had properly informed the political order were thought to be the proper leaders of the world.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
_____________________________________________
8. Who Should Rule, Experts or Representatives?
That laws should be made by a body of elected officials with roots in local communities. They should not be "experts," but they should have "most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society" (Madison). The wisdom in question was the kind on display which relentlessly dissected the political errors of the previous decade in terms accessible to any person of intelligence and common sense.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
That modern science had superseded the perspective of the liberally educated statesman. Only those educated in the top universities, preferably in the social sciences, were thought to be capable of governing. Politics was regarded as too complex for common sense to cope with. Government had taken on the vast responsibility not merely of protecting the people against injuries, but of managing the entire economy as well as providing for the people's spiritual well-being. Only government agencies staffed by experts informed by the most advanced modern science could manage tasks previously handled within the private sphere. Government, it was thought, needed to be led by those who see where history is going, who understand the ever-evolving idea of human dignity.
A) Agree
B) Disagree
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Enlisting a Opinion?
The other day I received this email from a friend asking me what I thought about the Mississippi Personhood measure that was on the Ballot. I reply I didn't know enough about it to make a honest evaluation concerning it. He stated:
"If you were to vote on that ballot issue how would you vote? Yes, a fertilized egg is a person or No, a fertilized egg is not a person. That makes it simple. Either YES or NO. It's your duty as a citizen to vote."
His last sentence intrigue me in many aspects, not about the measure, and certainly not for the issue itself. In many ways, I have no interesting in debating the issue of abortion, but I do find it interesting that he wanted me to debate him over it. I was mainly interested in approach to have me enlist a opinion on rather mundane issue of whether a person is person at conception.
The whole issue of issue of pro abortionist is the concept that states do not have a right to lament over whether a person is a person and that was left to the authority of the Federal government to set a moral prerogative over it's people. The very concept is more s personal issue than a federal one. Personal issues such as divorce, speeding tickets and health should be a issue handle by the state and it citizens, and certainly not by the Federal government.
Since the people of Mississippi voted down the issue for variety of reasons, than it certainly proves that pro abortionist are wrong, and that the people can make a decision on life and death issues. Proving them wrong that Abortion is not to big to issue to be left in the hands of its citizens.
There is certainly no reason abortion, or any other local moral issue cannot be left to the states. Society has grown enough to handle them and way the concerns of it's people, in comparison to the constitution issues. Society may have grown up as shown by the Mississippi vote!
But in many ways pro abortionist are afraid of the people, afraid they cannot defend a moral issue, and one of conscience rather than politics.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Occupy movement the Pits
To all of you who are involved in "Occupy Movment
Did you vote Jerry Brown or Obama in office????? You are only to blame. Get off your lazy butts and clean up L.A. Work at a place that an Illegal currently works and work hard like our forefathers did. EARN your keep and shut up. I am sick of my hard earned taxes paying for crud like this. The police have better things to do than stand around watching you scream and yell. This isn't the solution. Vote the idiots out of office who don't pull their weight and clean this stinking mess up. Any office official making more than 200K a year ... fire their butt... they are obviously not earning it. Fire the lazy county and state workers in our government offices like DMV, Welfare, V.A. hospitals (you got the picture) who move so slow because they know they are in the union and can't be fired. Stop all law suits against the state just to shut people up. If you steal from the government you work for free till you pay it back. Easy solutions...geezzzz. AND for heaven sake look at who you vote into office. It's called research! DO YOUR JOB AS A U.S. CITIZEN.
Stop the Drug use, the riots, the rapes, and any illegal activity you think is right, and violates the law! Stop complaing that life has given you the pits, when life has given allot of people allot worst! Start earning your way around this life. Make something of your life like Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, who when through far worst a time them you!
Remember your Grandparents who suffer throughout the Great depression, the dust bowl and came out smelling like a rose, unlike you who spent most of your time complaining that you didn't have any roses to smell!
And to all you students... A lot of you thought you knew it all when you voted... We learned 30 years ago and warned you all... So pay the piper, pay your way through college and run for office if you think you can do better. Sorry I had to vent......Sick of the news
Did you vote Jerry Brown or Obama in office????? You are only to blame. Get off your lazy butts and clean up L.A. Work at a place that an Illegal currently works and work hard like our forefathers did. EARN your keep and shut up. I am sick of my hard earned taxes paying for crud like this. The police have better things to do than stand around watching you scream and yell. This isn't the solution. Vote the idiots out of office who don't pull their weight and clean this stinking mess up. Any office official making more than 200K a year ... fire their butt... they are obviously not earning it. Fire the lazy county and state workers in our government offices like DMV, Welfare, V.A. hospitals (you got the picture) who move so slow because they know they are in the union and can't be fired. Stop all law suits against the state just to shut people up. If you steal from the government you work for free till you pay it back. Easy solutions...geezzzz. AND for heaven sake look at who you vote into office. It's called research! DO YOUR JOB AS A U.S. CITIZEN.
Stop the Drug use, the riots, the rapes, and any illegal activity you think is right, and violates the law! Stop complaing that life has given you the pits, when life has given allot of people allot worst! Start earning your way around this life. Make something of your life like Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, who when through far worst a time them you!
Remember your Grandparents who suffer throughout the Great depression, the dust bowl and came out smelling like a rose, unlike you who spent most of your time complaining that you didn't have any roses to smell!
And to all you students... A lot of you thought you knew it all when you voted... We learned 30 years ago and warned you all... So pay the piper, pay your way through college and run for office if you think you can do better. Sorry I had to vent......Sick of the news
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