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08/19 Friday
"If we could look into each other's hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care."
- Marvin J. Aston
This quote is about tolerance. Can you name three current events (last 6 months) where there has been a lack of tolerance in our country or world?
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1/06 welcome back
Today's thought:
"Do to others as you would have them do to you."
Luke 6:31
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08/22 Monday
What are the policy dynamics of the Affordable Care Act? Majoritarian politics, client politics, interest group politics, and policy entrepreneurs? In other words, what were the costs and benefits to each of these groups?
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Wednesday 1/11
"Morality exists in the set of rules governing behavior, that rational people would accept, on the condition that others accept them as well."
Define what a contract is and give an example.
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Thursday 8/25
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What are two things you signed and agreed to honor with your contract in this class?
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Tuesday 1/18
"All mankind...being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."
- John Locke
Define what the social contract theory is.
Look in your text, chapter 1 for assistance
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01/19 Thursday
"American democracy rests on the basic notion of a recognition of the fundamental worth and dignity of every person, respect for equality of all persons, a faith in majority rule and minority rights, and an acceptance of the necessity of compromise, and an insistence upon the widest possible degree of individual freedom."
Underline EACH component of democracy and provide one example for any of the components listed.
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03/21 Tuesday
Today's thought
"You are BEAUTIFUL, for you are FEARFULLY and WONDERFULLY made."
Psalm 139:14
On a scale of 1-10, how stressed are you right now?
What is ONE event happening on Capitol Hill today?
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01/27
"Mr. Madison shows conclusively that the members of that assembly were not seeking to realize any fine notions about democracy and equality, but we're striving to with all the resources of political wisdom at their command to set up a system of government that would be stable and efficient, safeguarded on one hand against the possibilities of despotism and on the other against the onslaught of majorities."
Charles Beard from Framing the Constitution
What point is Beard making in this excerpt?
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Today's thought:
"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."
- Peter Marshall
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Thursday 9/1
"Don't modulate the key then not debate with me! Why should a tiny island across the sea regulate the price of tea"?
Lyrics from Farmer Refuted (Hamilton)
Why did the colonists want independence?
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09/29 Thursday
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
Kenneth Galbraith
Do you agree or disagree with this prompt in light of this election season? Explain. It is OK to favor one candidate or the other, don't be afraid.
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11/11 Veteran's Day
"On this Veteran's Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free."
Dan Lipinski
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1/06 Friday
"Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well."
Matthew Lesko
List ONE success and ONE failure of the Obama administration. Identify ONE policy issue the new Congress and the incoming Trump administration must tackle.
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03/09 Thursday
"Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions."
- John McCain
What are our founding convictions that Senator McCain is referring to in this quote?
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03/15 Wednesday
"A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility and building solidarity among citizens."
Is this quote from a liberal or conservative? How do you know?
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03/20 Monday
"Let us not seek the Republican answer, or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
John F. Kennedy
What are three core values/positions of EACH the Democratic and the Republican Party?
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04/06 Thursday
"Send some warning shots to Democrats, saying the filibuster will cause Republicans to change the rules in an 'unnecessary' move that will 'haunt' the Senate for decades."
- Sen. Lindsay Graham
(R, SC)
What is meant by the "nuclear option" in context of the pending Gorsuch filibuster?
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