Appetizer

• What issue do you care about most when casting your ballot? Why?

• What would you risk your freedom for?

• How important is it to consider what the founders said when making or interpreting law?

Entrée

• If a government makes a mistake, how should the citizens respond?

• What should people do if they strongly disagree with a decision made by a leader?

• Would you have signed the Declaration of Independence knowing that it would make you a traitor and could endanger you and your family?

• The Declaration states that people are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. What other rights do you think people have?

• Which of the First Amendment rights do you consider most important: freedom of speech, religion, assembly, or the press?

Dessert

• What can the American Revolution teach us today?
• If a tax were put on your favorite food or drink, would you boycott it?
• What are a citizen’s responsibilities to their country?

Kids

• Do you think you’d have been a Loyalist or a Patriot?
• What does it mean to be patriotic?
• What does it mean to be part of a community?