1. How do you decide who to vote for if there are many candidates? How do you get to know them all?
2. What makes Americans members of one community?
3. Why did John Jay try to ratify the Constitution in 1789? Do you think this was a legit reason?
4. What is the proper role of government in a system of constitutionally restricted powers?
5. What is the difference between government and politics?
6. Why are Americans more inclined to agree with Gore Vidals cynical view of politics saying "who collects what money from whom in order to spend on what is all there to politics."?
7. How do all these different types of people come together as one? It blows my mind how ethnically, economically, and religiously divers we are and yet we still work together to form the "American System."
8. How do you feel about the immigration policies? Are they too strict or not strict enough?
9. Was it the governments fault that some of the attackers had entered legally on tourist and student visas and had overstayed? How can they regulate this?
10. Should the government have a right to limit immigration?
11. What are the main reasons for opening and closing the door to immigration?
12. What did the US not do about immigration after 9/11?
13. What wouldn't Americans want to shut down immigration or return to the era of restricting immigration after 9/11?
14. What makes economic diversity so important?
15. Why are regional and residental differences important?
16. How do leaders reconcile differences?
17. What is a polical culture and its significance?
18. What caused identitiy politics to rise?
19. Why is American society referred to as the melting pot?
20. Why were/are census options changed so often? Did it cause controversy? Why?
5. I believe that while government is the institution for making and enforcing laws, politics focus more on how to interpret these laws. Government itself doesn't cause debates; rather, it is the politics of the government that do. The government makes the law, but not every person sees it the same way, which causes the splitting of political parties and disagreements among Americans.
ReplyDelete19. Historically, the United States has been a land open to all types of people, and these people are said to all have equal rights. As these diverse people live and work among each other, new cultures and types of societies form as the old ones melt together. People grow more aware of other types of people and their own perspectives on life shift.