Modern day liberalism is shaped and continues to be shaped by historical events and ideas. The idea of a welfare state, the Aboriginal's Great Law of Peace, and the Women's Movement all molded classical liberalism into what it is today to best meet societal needs. Classical liberalism came about after the fall of the oppressive Roman Catholic Church (Europe) in an attempt to bring about equality amongst the people due to the previous unjust class system. Under the ruling of the nineteenth century laissez-faire capitalism, the people were given much more freedom, government power was limited and secularism arose. After its implementation, many problems took place throughout the society such as poverty, no government control over businesses, and injustice due to excessively individualistic values. Under the ideology of classical liberalism (laissez-faire capitalism), the individual's needs are favored over the collective needs. Although this belief resulted in disunity between all people due to every individual only caring about their personal benefit and disregarding society, it especially affected the needy and less fortunate who were not cared for. These issues brought on the idea of a welfare state and welfare capitalism was introduced. In this system (modern liberalism), the state aids in the economic and social condition of its citizens. In a welfare state it is the government's responsibility to provide social security and basic human needs. The individual is still favored but there are collective programs such as social insurance, free healthcare and educational systems. Usually a welfare state provides food banks, healthcare services, and housing. The Great Law of Peace plays a huge part in modern day liberalism in which the aspects of it are included in the constitutions' of western countries such as Canada and the United States. As a ceremony, it was formed at the southern edge of the Lake Ontario Watershed on the