Abraham Lincoln once said that the Constitution should be the "political religion of the nation." What do you think he meant by this? Would the founders agree? Why or why not?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Discuss how Americans have a deep reverence toward our Constitution. We treat the Constitution as our nonreligious "bible"—the written document that Americans deeply respect and obey.
2, Discuss how the founders might be surprised by this assertion. The Constitution involved a number of compromises, ambiguous provisions, and generalizations regarding the authority of the national government.
3, Describe how the founders provided checks and balances, distributed power among the three branches of government, and divided power among the federal and the state governments, all for practical purposes. The Constitution was not based on a set of sacred principles.
4, Note that today we value the wisdom of the founders, who created a document that has survived for more than 200 years.
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What aspect of American political culture presented an obstacle in the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010?
a. collectivism b. distrust of government c. societal responsibility to care for all d. unwillingness to help those who deserve it
Weighting is statistical adjustments a. that are not acceptable to improve the survey results
b. made to survey data to accommodate those who did not understand the survey. c. made to survey data after collection to improve the accuracy of survey estimates. d. that reflect the margin of error related to the sample size.