explain the governments role in creating social policy?

Question

explain the governments' role in creating social policy since 1945

Answer 1

It would help if you explained what you meant by the term, “social policy.”

I suspect you are driving at the following, Social policy relates to guidelines for the changing, maintenance or creation of living conditions that are conducive to human welfare. Thus social policy is that part of public policy that has to do with social issues such as public access to social programs. Social policy aims to improve human welfare and to meet human needs for education, health, housing and social security. In an academic environment, social policy refers to the study of the welfare state and the range of responses to social need.
In United States politics, social policies are those which regulate and govern human behavior in areas such as sexuality and general morality. Social policies are in contrast to other, more traditional forms of political policy, such as foreign policy and economic policy. Modern-day social policies may deal with the following issues:
•abortion, and the regulation of its practice
•the legal status of euthanasia
•the rules surrounding issues of marriage, divorce, and adoption
•poverty, welfare, and homelessness and how it is to deal with these issues

While this is a common understanding today, it is not the position of the Founders who created the federal government. The Founders recognized the need for such social policies but saw them as influenced by local family, community, church, and to some degree the State. They never saw a role of for the federal government in social policy and would have seen the federal government attempting such as intrusive and extra-constitutional. These unconstitutional changes have been creeping in since the time of ratification, but certain events can be selected as major contributors. This would include the John Marshall Court and the 1819 case of McCulloch v. Maryland; the Lincoln Administration’s changing of the Constitution; the application of the 14th Amendment [1868] and its justification in the case of Texas v. White [1869] from the Salmon P. Chase Court; and most assuredly the welfare state induce of the Franklin Roosevelt administration beginning in the 1930s; and the carrying on of this with Lyndon Johnson administration in the mid 1960s.

Today the federal government permeates and controls our lives in nearly everything we do and there is no Constitutional justification for any of it.

Answer 2

It is the governments role to create social policy in everything it does.
That doesn't mean just post war but is the general rule of governance. Since the War in the UK successive governments, some better than others, have tried to create a better place for people to live. This has been done by creating social policies on health and welfare as well as policies to provide a conducive economy for the creation of jobs.
The NHS, Slum Clearances, Health and Safety at Work Laws are just some of the many examples that could be cited.

Answer 3

Yes, there must be a government in place to regulate commerce and protect the public from things like illegal business transactions. There is definitely a role for the government to play in the market, just not too much. The success of a free market is to know what the government can touch, and what it can not.

Answer 4

What you mean is manipulating social policy for there own ends, when the policys were introducet in 1945 I,E National health , labour laws, safety at work laws, minimum holidays, rights to apeal , Human rights, by right thinking men who had lived and seen the squalor of the previos 50 years . succesive goverments have slowly but surely diluted them for their own ends