Study Questions

  1. What does the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution tells us for why government matters?
  2. Slavery was not resolved during the writing of the U.S. Constitution. Why didn’t the framers want to fully address the problem? Would the U.S. look different today if they framers had addressed slavery directly in the Constitution?
  3. What features of the U.S. Constitution may be of universal value to other countries seeking to have limited government?