Ever changing demographics, cultural mores, values, technologies, and understanding raise important questions for our nation… Are our rights endowments from the Creator, as the founders believed? Or are they best understood as positive rights, as bestowed upon us by government? What are the costs and benefits of the freedom our democracy affords?

How do we balance majority rule with individual rights? What are the limits of free speech, of religious liberty, and of other rights we enjoy? What are the causes of political and social apathy? How have partisan politics impacted the conduct of our government? To what extent does government promote, or impede, economic equality?

How does technology influence our understanding of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Should the United States seek to export democracy to foreign nations? Is the way America practices democracy the best way, or can we learn lessons from other democracies around the world? Is access to healthcare an unalienable right?