For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

The fact that the Americans who upheld the sovereignty of their states did this in order to keep many of their people more securely in slavery -- the antithesis of individual liberty -- made the conflict grimmer, and the greater.

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

Among individual dealers questioned in nearly a score of states, two out of three report their sales since August 1 show sizable gains from a year earlier, with the increases ranging from 5% to 50%.

Lincoln understood that the Federal government's power to end slavery was limited by the Constitution, which before 1865, committed the issue to individual states.

The final draft of the Articles was prepared in the summer of 1777 and the Second Continental Congress approved them for ratification by the individual states on November 15, 1777, after a year of debate.

The ADA states that a covered entity shall not discriminate against a qualified individual with a disability.

In Luke 1: 3-4, the author states that he decided to “ write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the truth concerning the things about which you have been instructed .” Theophilus is Greek for lover of God and it is suggested that he may either be an individual who recently converted to the faith or a Roman official of whom the church is seeking acceptance from.

That implies the several individual states to be interconnected in such a way, that they still keep their own sovereignty ; but the resulting compound also has state-character ( Bundesstaat ).

The fidelity of individual bodyguards is an important question as well, especially for leaders who oversee states with strong ethnic or religious divisions.

Leaders of individual states and regions are Administrative Bishops, who have jurisdiction over local churches in their respective states and are vested with appointment authority for local pastorates.

Restrictions on homebrewing were lifted in the UK in 1963, Australia followed suit in 1972, and the USA in 1978, though individual states were allowed to pass their own laws limiting production.

How the individual processes the world also depends on the phase of the disorder, with differential characteristics between the manic, hypomanic and depressive states.

The common law constitutes the basis of the legal systems of: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, federal law in the United States and the law of individual U. S. states ( except Louisiana ), federal law throughout Canada and the law of the individual provinces and territories ( except Quebec ), Australia ( both federal and individual states ), Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Pakistan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Granadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and many other generally English-speaking countries or Commonwealth countries ( except Scotland, which is bijuridicial, and Malta ).

Canal companies were initially chartered by individual states in the United States.

Other states, such as New Jersey, require each plaintiff to approve the settlement of that plaintiff's own individual claims.

In the United States the Democratic and the Republican Parties both have Central Committees ; these act as the leading body of those organizations at the national / administrative level, as well as local committees in a similar capacity within the local Democratic or Republican governments of individual counties and states.

Dalton's law states that the total vapor pressure is the sum of the vapor pressures of each individual component in the mixture.

The Huygens – Fresnel principle is one such model ; it states that each point on a wavefront generates a secondary spherical wavelet, and that the disturbance at any subsequent point can be found by summing the contributions of the individual wavelets at that point.

Beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, many governments presiding over planned economies began marketization ( or as in the Soviet Union, the system collapsed ) and moving toward market-based economies by allowing individual enterprises to make the pricing, production, and distribution decisions, granting autonomy to state enterprises and ultimately expanding the scope of the private sector through privatization.

Silvermintz notes that, " Historians of economic thought credit Plato, primarily on account of arguments advanced in his Republic, as an early proponent of the division of labor .” Notwithstanding this, Silvermintz argues that, " While Plato recognizes both the economic and political benefits of the division of labor, he ultimately critiques this form of economic arrangement insofar as it hinders the individual from ordering his own soul by cultivating acquisitive motives over prudence and reason.

* Altruism, ultimately, denies an individual value and is therefore destructive both to society and its individual components, viewing life merely as a thing to be sacrificed.

For example, Lancaster students, motivated to save scrip, ultimately rented individual pages of textbooks from the school library, and read them in groups around music stands to reduce textbook costs.

It prophesied an American utopia regulated by an assortment of cutting-edge technologies: remote-controlled multi lane highways, power plants, farms for artificially produced crops, rooftop platforms for individual flying machines and various gadgets, all intended to create an ideal built environment and ultimately to reform society.

But ultimately each of the Berber dynasties proved to be a political failure because none managed to create an integrated society out of a social landscape dominated by tribes that prized their autonomy and individual identity.

Behavior that may be optimal for an individual ( e. g., saving more during adverse economic conditions ) can be detrimental if too many individuals pursue the same behavior, as ultimately one person's consumption is another person's income.

Under sharia law, however, ownership of all property ultimately rests with God ; while individual property rights are upheld, there is a corresponding obligation to share, particularly with those in need.

This treatment can be used effectively only a limited number of times for a given individual, however, as a bite victim will ultimately develop antibodies to neutralize the foreign animal antigens injected into them as components of the antivenin.

From Jung's perspective, this replacement of God with the state in a mass society led to the dislocation of the religious drive and resulted in the same fanaticism of the church-states of the Dark Ages — wherein the more the state is ' worshipped ', the more freedom and morality are suppressed ; this ultimately leaves the individual psychically undeveloped with extreme feelings of marginalization.

It is what a world view ( whether it be based on individual or shared human experience ) ultimately attempts to describe or map.

Hugh Luke argues that " By ending her story with the picture of the Earth's solitary inhabitant, she has brought nearly the whole weight of the novel to bear upon the idea that the condition of the individual being is essentially isolated and therefore ultimately tragic " ( xvii ).

With regard to a prominent mental disorder, Schizophrenia, for a long time consensus among scientists was that certain alleles ( forms of genes ) were responsible for schizophrenia, but some research has indicated only multiple, rare mutations thought to alter neurodevelopmental pathways that can ultimately contribute to schizophrenia ; virtually every rare structural mutation was different in each individual.

In negative theology, it is accepted that the Divine is ineffable, an abstract experience that can only be recognized or remembered — that is, human beings cannot describe in words the essence of the perfect good that is unique to the individual, nor can they define the Divine, in its immense complexity, related to the entire field of reality, and therefore all descriptions if attempted will be ultimately false and conceptualization should be avoided ; in effect, it eludes definition by definition:

Thus, the counterfactual brings into sharp relief the question of how important Hitler was as an individual and how his personal fate shaped the course of the war and, ultimately, of world history.

Police questioned and interviewed hundreds of potential suspects including one individual, Bret Michael Edmunds, a 26-year-old drifter who was pursued across the country but ultimately was cleared of suspicion in the case after being located in a West Virginia hospital suffering from a drug overdose.

) has a specific meaning when used in the context of DNA synthesis: whereas an individual phosphoramidite nucleobase to be added to a DNA polymer has protecting groups and has its molecular weight quoted including these groups, the amount of molecular weight that is ultimately added by this nucleobase to a DNA polymer is referred to as the nucleobase's formula weight ( i. e., the molecular weight of this nucleobase within the DNA polymer, minus protecting groups ).

" While this mastery depended on each individual fully realizing his capacities, it was ultimately a collective achievement and the product of institutions which established the conditions both for individual and collective achievement.

Transcendentalists believed that society and its institutions — particularly organized religion and political parties — ultimately corrupted the purity of the individual.

This causes a contradiction to arise between the true perception of an object's size and the smaller perception of the object, and micropsic bias ultimately causes the individual to experience micropsia.

Faulkner, however, stated that although none of the narrators got the facts right, since " no one individual can look at truth ," there is a truth and the reader can ultimately know it.

The Assault on Culture, written when Home was twenty-five, is an underground art history sketching Home's ultimately personal history of ideas and influences in post-World War II fringe radical art and political currents, and including – for the first time in a book – a tactically manipulated history of post-war culture to make it conclude with Neoism ( and which it is sometimes claimed includes character assassinations of individual Neoists ) that was continued in the later book Neoism, Plagiarism and Praxis.

A central reason for the utilization of performance appraisals ( PAs ) is performance improvement (“ initially at the level of the individual employee, and ultimately at the level of the organization ”).