Big+Questions


 * __Some questions to consider:__**

Are you a social Darwinist? Do you believe that the world operates by the survival of the fittest? Do you think it should be that way?

Is it alright with you that Europeans came to what is now America and decimated the native population, colonized the land, and developed it into what it is today?

Were the British colonists in America justified to protest the policies of the British parliament and King? Were they justified to violently revolt?

If you were in charge of adding 5 new amendments to the U.S. Constitution, what would they be?

If you could add only one, what would it be?

Did the framers of the U.S. Constitution believe that the principles they established would last forever? Did they foresee the world we live in today?

Should the Supreme Court regard the U.S. Constitution as they believe the framers intended or should they apply more contemporary situations and values to their interpretation of the law?

Is the United States too big? Is it too diverse? Would it be better governed as two or three separate but interactive nations?

What would your immigration policy be for the United States?

Is it the responsibility of America to promote democracy around the world? To intervene in foreign affairs in which human rights are at risk? To support the interests of allies with financial and/or military aid?

To what extent should the federal government regulate business activity in the United States?

Is it the government's responsibility to help poor people?

Should Americans pay different amounts of income tax?

Who has had more to do with the status of America today, George Washington or Abraham Lincoln? Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King Jr? Martin Luther King Jr or Franklin Delano Roosevelt? FDR or JFK?