Would the founding fathers agree or disagree with conservative extremists that think there should be no separation of church and state?
Why does the census not ask about religion?
Why did the government decide not to count slaves in the early censuses?
What was the reasoning for Mexicans to get their own category then become reabsorbed back in to the "whites" category?
Should the government of today change the official language laws so that it can accommodate the other languages spoken by Americans?
Did Thomas Jefferson think that only educated people should vote?
The book states that Americans are to diverse to share a common set of political views, then why do we have a two-party system?
How many of the American in 2000, who were over the age of 65, were retired?
Why does the book make it sound like identity politics are acceptable?
What would happen without political culture within the government, would it make it easier for congress to make decisions?
Most of the Founding Fathers were Deist, so would they include themselves in the part were the wanted Americans to have the same religion?
Why did the census researcher determine the ethnicity/ race of people instead of the people telling for themselves?
In 1990 the census was said to have four options for your race where was Hispanic/Latino put because it was said to be in the census too?
What is/was the point of collecting information about race? ( the Canadians don't do it so why do we?
Is it fair that the government ethnically singled out people, Mid-Eastern/ Arab peoples, just because the terrorist group Al-Qaeda was know to be in that area of the world?
Why didn't Bush retry to better relation with mexico after 9/11?
Why does no one in the Republican party think that it is horrible that the well-off, rich Republican members of Congress keep voting for raising taxes on the poor and tax cuts for the rich?
Did the government ever justify how the treat Mid-Eastern people more suspiciously after finding out the attack on the Twin Towers was organized by Al-Qaeda?
Did the author of the book honestly think that the economy was in a "stable" position at the time of this books creation?
Why did the government single out the 100,000 Mid-Easterners living in America illegally and dismiss the other 5 to 8 million people living here illegally?
Question 3: I think the slaves were not counted/part of the censuses is because back then they were not seen as equal to everyone else; they were discriminated for their skin color.
ReplyDeleteQuestion 5: Yes I think they should change the language law. If English is the official language you can't expect that everyone in this country can speak 'perfect' English. There are still people trying to learn and getting accustomed to the language as they enter the country.
The book states that Americans are to diverse to share a common set of political views, then why do we have a two-party system?
ReplyDeleteI don't think it was intended for there to be a two party system. I think the founding fathers would have opposed it. I think they would have thought that the system misrepresented the people, forcing people into two parties. A parliamentary system would seem desirable for them.
Most of the Founding Fathers were Deist, so would they include themselves in the part were the wanted Americans to have the same religion?
I think a homogeneous culture would unify Americans. The north and south were split, anything to unite them would have been encouraged. They wanted freedom of religion, but a national religion and even culture would make the country more unified and it would speed up the political process.