1. Public Policy and Culture Seminar
AP Government and politics
8/29/18-8/30/18

2. Agenda HOMEWORK: Chapter 1 quiz Friday Warm-Up Data Analysis Practice
Brief discussion from chapter 1
Group research
Prepare to discuss platform and policy
Class Discussion with each group sharing information/findings
HOMEWORK: Chapter 1 quiz Friday

3. DEFINE Define Popular Sovereignty Black’s Law Merriam-Webster:
Political sovereignty is the assertion of the self-determinate will of the organic people, and in this there is the manifestation of its freedom. It is in and through the determination of its sovereignty that the order of the nation is constituted and maintained.
Merriam-Webster:
1: a doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the people
2: a pre-Civil War doctrine asserting the right of the people living in a newly organized territory to decide by vote of their territorial legislature whether or not slavery would be permitted there

5. Public Policy

6. Political Culture
According to Seymour Martin Lipset, ”The United States is a country organized around an ideology which includes a set of dogmas about the nature of a good society” (qtd. Edwards 17).
What constitutes the American Creed (Lipset’s dogmas)?
Liberty
Individualism
Laissez-Faire
Populism
Egalitarianism

7. Are we currently in a political culture war?
QUESTION?
Are we currently in a political culture war?