Answer the following questions. Each answer should be at least two paragraphs each that consist of 5-7 sentences. Please proofread your answer and provide specific examples from your readings to answer your questions.
1. Now that you have read the Constitution, watched the short video about the importance of the Constitution and read the article by Nikole Hanna Jones, please answer the following:
a) What are the values stated in the Declaration of Independence?
b)In what ways can you see those values working in contemporary U.S. society? In what ways can you see them failing?
2) What examples of hypocrisy in the founding of the U.S. does Hannah-Jones supply? What evidence can you see for how “some might argue that this nation was founded not as a democracy but as a slavocracy”?
The post The Idea of America first appeared on COMPLIANT PAPERS.