1. Find a copy of the Declaration of Independence online and review it for its main ideas. How are the core values of American democracy incorporated into the Declaration?
The liberty and freedom each man or woman. that all men are created equal and have certain rights, not given by government, but by birth
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?
The government's job is to make sure the people are safe and that they're abiding by the rules, but also they're supposed to make sure each person is given their rights as human beings. The people's job is to make sure they elect people who do what the government is supposed to do.
3. How might some or all of these core values be important to the preservation of a free and independent press?
If there is no free press, then there is no freedom of speech, according to the 1st amendment, everyone has the right to free speech.
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.
this allows people to say or do certain things and then tell or show other people and the value help drive these actions, because most things would not violate this value.
5. What responsibilities do producers of information have to these core values and their fellow citizens when distributing information?
their responsibility is to have the facts and tell the truth, now if they do it, thats up to them, but its still responsibility to do so.
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