of many southerners which lead to there succession. This need to control a people. To control there daily lives is what cause fear in many Americans lives. The lack of freedom to live as we see fit drives us as a nation to intercede into foreign affairs and begin a policy of con!
             However, I disagree with Friedberg and Princeton press in that the notion of weakness kept us from achieving garrison state hood. I think it was not weakness of a state but fear of the consequences and perhaps our past, is what made it possible for the United States to shun this behavior and stay away from that which we opposed.
             Friedberg's analysis of the U. S. government's approach to taxation, conscription, industrial planning, scientific research and development, and armaments manufacturing reveals that the American state did expand during the early Cold War period. But domestic constraints on its expansion--including those stemming fr
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