Portal:What Government do We Want

The Big Issues

A characteristic of America is that we are usually dealing with some big issues - issues that have national visibility. They are usually (not always) issues in which our federal government is involved, including our Supreme Court. A few may unite us. However, it seems today that most divide us. We are a strong nation. We have been through worse internal conflict. This portal is an entry point into what Civicwiki intends to be a factual and honest discussion of 'The Big Issues' to achieve better understanding and, thereby, more agreement. We will start this portal by looking to polls conducted by Gallup since the 1960s. One of these asks the question, what is the [greatest threat] - big government, big business or big labor. In 2013 72% responded with 'big government'. Another Gallup poll asks more general questions about what Americans see as the[most important problems]. This portal is the place to assign categories and pages that present and discuss the link between American independence and English rights.

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Categories and contents Click on arrows to see subcategories and articles. Article titles are in italics. Category The Big Issues not found Things you can do Improve the introduction above (text and image). Find a good image to represent the portal. Write (or edit) a page about about inalienable rights. What are inalienable rights? Their connection to Common Law? What did the concept mean to American independence?

Sand Box Here is a link to test article 1. It was created without using the Article form. Experiment 2 Articles