Why was the u. s. federal government reluctant to fund projects to improve public transport during the first decades of the nineteenth century?

Because during those times technology was not advanced enough and due to that, such projects required large amounts of workers and time that made their cost very high. Because of these reasons politicians considered that the economic benefits of such endeavors were unequal and uncertain.

john locke is most associated with the idea of consent of the governed which is the idea that the government is only valid if it has the consent of the people who are being governed.

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