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What are the characteristics of each?
Which characteristics of each do we see in the USA?
What are our points of disagreement?
Is this question a false dichotomy? Could democracy be compatible with empire?
What values, assumptions, and beliefs about human life drive each system? (This is the stuff ideology is made of….
What were the ideals set forth in the founding of our nation?
To what degree is America living up to those ideals?
Brainstorm answers to any of the following questions
1. What do you remember about the American Revolution? What have you learned about it in your education?
2. What are some of the ideals upon which the Revolution was based?
3. Why was the Declaration of Independence written?
The Declaration of Independence
- What is the tone here? What bias do you see?
The Ideology of the Declaration of Independence