Blog Assignment #13: Declaration of Independence

             Declaration of Independence Questions


Question 1: How are the core values of American democracy incorporated into the Declaration?



Answer 1: Core democratic values are the fundamental beliefs and constitutional principles of American society, which unite all Americans. These values are expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the United States constitution and other significant documents, speeches, and writing of the nation as references. 

Question 2: 

What responsibilities does the government have to honoring these core values? What responsibilities do individual citizens have to preserve these core values?

Answer 2: The government has responsibilities that have to honor these core values. These responsibilities are that it knows the importance of human life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, common good, justice, equality among people, diversity among cultures, truth, popular sovereignty, and patriotism. 

Individual citizens have to preserve certain responsibilities that are keeping these  core values and following the laws. They have to realize the importance of their life, know that they have liberty, know the pursuit of happiness, do common good, keep justice, keep equality among peers, keep diversity between cultures, tell the truth, popular sovereignty, and keep patriotism.

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


Answer 3: These core values are knowing that we all have liberty, patriotism, and more. The core values that are important to the preservation of a free and independent press are Liberty, Patriotism, etc.


Question 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. 


Answer 4: I would have to say that there are many of the core values that allow that. Some are telling the truth, equality, diversity, liberty, popular 

sovereignty, patriotism, and more of them. Basically most of them allow p

rivate citizens to collect, edit and further distribute information to others and how the values help drive these actions. 



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


Answer 5: The responsibilities that producers of information have to these core values and their fellow citizens when distributing information are that they have give information that follows these core values like trustworthiness,  equality, diversity, etc.