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This 9 page paper discusses the view of the State and the relationship between the State and the average citizen. Examples given from the Progressive Era through to modern era. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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that the country should be by the people, for the people and with the people. This often took the form of social welfare and so, if one were to analyze
the various social reforms, one could document the ongoing changes between the state and the citizen, particularly in the areas of equality and aid to the poor. THE HISTORY OF
THE POOR IN AMERICA There was a price to pay for the industrial progress of the Progressive Era. The states relationship to the average citizen was far and removed from
the reality of everyday life for most of the population. Unfortunately, those who shouldered the largest burden of the cost were the disenfranchised farmers, who innocently thinking they would better
their way of living, moved in droves to the cities. However, the internal conditions of the cities, in the form of slums, were appalling to say the least. Many have
speculated that if it were not for some social and economic reforms that came at that time (called the Progressive Movement) that there may very well have been some sort
of internal revolt by the working poor. When one considers where the United States had been and where it presently was in the Progressive Era, it had indeed made strides
in many areas. Unfortunately, it was too little, too late, it can be stated. Most of the conditions that were addressed by the Progressive Movement, were at such a fever
pitch that if someone hadnt done something soon, there would have been another Civil War. There was such a wide chasm between the haves and the have-nots that without reforms
of some kind, internal conflict was inevitable. Therefore, one has to believe that states actions may have been motivated, not out of compassion for ones fellow man, but by the
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