Interview

I interviewed an 18 year old student about the themes and big ideas of this chapter. I first started off about the overall idea of voting and our government. I asked about whether getting reelected is more important to politicians than making real decisions. He doesn't think so because he believes in order to get reelected it is necessary to make real decisions. You need to make the people happy with your decisions to get reelected. He said he would vote strictly for his party. I don't understand how people know who to vote for or how to get to know all the candidates. Do many people just vote on other people’s opinions and follow them or do they vote on your party. I'd like to know how to vote since I will be voting in the near futures.

I then started discussing the Constitution with him. He started off saying that the Constitution should be revised periodically since a lot of things have changed and it needs to benefit the people of that time. However many people have different views on this specific topic of updating the Constitution. He also believed the Constitution was written as a set of guidelines since guidelines are more flexible and easily changed. But he believes it has now began to become strictly adhered too since people constantly turn to the Constitution for support of their cause. There are many opinions on this also. He said that we must have the Constitution rather than going by our own humanity. He brought up the fact that there are many beliefs and morals with the different people that we must have a set of guidelines that we can all base on.

Overall I agree with these answers. I wonder what older adults would feel on these issues and themes of this chapter. I would like to compare my findings with other students who have interviewed adults such as parents.