Tuesday, October 20, 2009

NP Blog Assignment for 10/20/09

Hey NP Students,

Here is your next blog assignment, due by the end of this week:

Find a copy of the Declaration of Independence online. Read it and answer the following questions.

Declaration of Independence Questions:

1. Take out a copy of the Declaration of Independence and review the document for its main ideas. How are the core values of American democracy incorporated into the Declaration?

2. Throughout these core values, the relationship between citizen and government is described. What responsibilities does the government have to honoring these core values? What responsibilities do individual citizens have to preserve these core values?

3. How might some or all of these core values be important to the preservation of a free and independent press?

4. Identify the core values of American constitutional democracy that allow private citizens to collect, edit and further distribute information to others and how the values help drive these actions.

5. What responsibilities do producers of information have to these core values and their fellow citizens when distributing information?

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