Assignment:
Use the article of Social Fragmentation and the Decline of American Democracy to answer the following questions. Complete sentences are not required, but please be descriptive enough that your answer makes sense. Answers can be written directly underneath each question.
Q1. What percentage of Americans said they could trust government all or most of the time in 1958? What had that number fallen to by the 1992 presidential campaign?
Q2. Confidence in Congress fell from an already poor percent in 2000, down to a mere percent in 2015.
Q3. Americans have generally believed this about the United States since 1972:
Q4. Today only 43% of those under 30 say this:
Q5. George W. Bush was the third consecutive winner of the presidency to do this:
Q6. Members of these TWO groups turned out in record numbers for Obama in the 2008 election:
Q7. According to U.S. News & World Report, 51% of high school students did not believe this:
Q8. What do individuals do under the social contract formulated by Hobbes and Locke?
Q9. The moral authority of government originates from these THREE things:
Q10. These THREE individual traits are said to offer the best check on government abuse