Consider the essential question: how much power should government have? as you develop your response, consider these ideas:
• should government have the power to make laws? to enforce laws? to punish lawbreakers?
should governments be able to tax citizens to pay for things? who should decide how much tax people will pay or what things the government will pay for?
• should government have the power to fight wars? to force members of the society to fight in these wars?
what powers should government have or not have? support your claims using at least two primary sources. use the following search terms to find primary sources on th
internet. be sure to evaluate whether the website is a reliable one.
• the declaration of independence
• the united states constitution
• bill of rights
• military selective service act
• plato's republic
• aristotle's politics
• pericles's "funeral oration"
• herodotus's the history of herodotus, book ill