According to Jackson what is required of the national government to be worth defending for

According to Jackson, in order for the national government to "be worth defending", "The national government must protect people's rights and property," since Jackson viewed himself and his administration as being for the "common people".

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire