What is the theory of Social Darwinism and how was this theory related to laissez faire and dual federalism?

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Darwin (1809-1882) made physical observations, of the reality of life over massive periods of time. That initiative distinctly contributed toward setting in motion a spirit of inquiry, and definition. That upset many aspects of how people assumed their intentions should preserve the continuity of how they could get along

The mass extinction of species found by Darwin in geological strata suggested man is not the measure of everything, and so unraveled threads of political and religious hierarchy toward exposing many Achilles Heals.

Social Darwinism became a 20th century umbrella term for notions of social control that used Darwin’s 19th century science to justify expansions which that science found baseless. The term encompasses horrific social strands which define political and religious paradoxes from which our time emerged.

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Laissez Faire, for example, invoked God-like acceptance of fear to direct child labor in factories, ‘training schools’, and work at large (in time, use of such labor was clearly defined as not legal). Nazi German Concentration Camp eugenics, which grew through Laissez Faire ‘looking the other way’, was shut down by World War II. Ironically, as much as government can run amok it can also be a stabilizing.

Darwin’s science fed curiosities that individual initiative, which had accrued through  millennia of human development, was ripe for. Work such as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1853), Lewis Hines (1874-1940) photographs of factory child labor, and Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle  (1906) are examples of responses to Laissez Faire Social Darwinism which freely emerged from protections of individual liberty put forth in The Declaration of Independence (1776) and The Constitution of The United States (1787).

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Dual Federalism arrived before Darwin, with the late 18th century writing of the United States Constitution. With Dual Federalism, explored in The Federalist Papers (written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and others) the concept of checks and balances on government included state government as well as a central government. The United States was unable to reconcile slavery politically (as, for example, Great Britain had). Eventually the South invaded the North claiming State’s Rights Social Darwinism. Both sides claimed religious Social Darwinist justification of the slaughter involved. The US Civil War (1861-1865) concluded with the country together again, and reconstruction of what’s going became an element of the American psyche.

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 Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic during the Civil War, was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with a Mother’s Day Proclamation reflecting the fact that after the Civil War it was women which carried the labors of love for …their families, (so many men had slaughtered themselves). Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), a freed slave who became pivotal to defining the nature of emerging American leadership through the 20th century, said “There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”