Argumentative Essay On Government Power

Through the original properties of popular sovereignty and limited government, the United States formed the idea that the government draws its power from the people. The United States Government is a democracy, allowing its people to vote for things that the government might want to enforce so that the government isn't able to create any type of law that the people don't want. Limited government goes hand in hand with the property of popular sovereignty, ensuring that the government could only do what the people allowed it to, so that it does not have extreme power. According to a July 2015 survey of internet using households “19 million households reported that they had been affected by some type of an online security breach, identity theft, or type of malevolent activity 12 months prior to the survey” (Abbott, …show more content…
Previously the government provided us with protection against ISP’s denying attempts to remove open networks and equal service to all consumers. Now that the Net Neutrality act has been repealed, the government is allowing large cell phone and internet providers to charge different fees to different consumers. This creates a huge obstacle for small businesses who rely on the internet to start up their businesses, create markets, advertise their products and services, and reach customers. We need the open internet to foster job growth, competition and innovation. Therefore all branches of the United States government should have the limitless ability to monitor and prevent security breaches as well as misuses of sensitive non public consumer information. Also the state governments should have the ability to choose whether their state will support or revoke net neutrality, allowing the local businesses to more effectively compete in the economy against large businesses and allow consumers to access internet sites without increased