Lesson 13: The Founders Invent a New System of Political Science II 
Reading Assignment: The Making of America, pages 182-200 

Pre-lesson questions for homework study and review: 

1. How many powers were delegated to the national government in the Constitution? (page 182) 

2. How did the founders describe the different roles of the federal and state governments? (183-86) 

3. What are the three functions of government, and how did the founders balance and coordinate them? (186) 

4. Describe the problem-solving process in government, as illustrated by the wings of the eagle. (186-87) 

5. What ingenious device did the founders employ to peacefully rectify abuses of power? (187-88) 

6. What is the "final line of defense" against abusive government? (190-91) 

7. What are the three elements of a sound government? Explain the advantages of each. (Page 191) 

8. How does the American system of government implement these three elements? (192) 

9. Describe the founders' dream of worldwide government under the Constitution. (193-94) 

10. How did the founders express their feelings about what they had accomplished? (194-95) 

11. Briefly describe the seven steps through which Western civilization has had to climb during the past thousand years in order to obtain a condition of true freedom. 
What was the American founders' great hope regarding step 8? (196-200) 



Lesson 14: Prosperity Economics 

Reading Assignment: The Making of America, pages 203-220 

Pre-lesson questions for homework study and review: 

1. In a free-market economy, there are generally three groups of productive people. Can you describe each of them? (pages 204-7) 

2. In a free-market system, how do people discover where they best fit among these three groups? (207) 

3. By way of review, what are the four necessary economic freedoms? In what four situations is government intervention justified? (207) 

4. Define the term profit. Why is profit necessary in a free-market economy? (208) 

5. According to Adam Smith, what is true wealth? (208) 

6. Which is more wasteful, competition or monopoly? Explain. (208-9) 

7. Do government-imposed price controls ever have a place in a free-market economy? 
Cite some examples of price controls doing the exact opposite of what was expected by those who imposed such controls. (209) 

8. Do you believe a little regulation of the economy is desirable? When and by whom? (210) 

9. According to the founders, when is "bigness" bad? (pages 210--12) 

10. Describe the development of business trusts in the United States. (212-14) 

11. Is "trust busting" good or bad? (214-15) 

12. Should government ever reduce the number and variety of products in order to make better use of economic resources? (215-16) 

13. Describe how Adam Smith's principles began to be considered archaic. What ideas replaced them? (216-17) 

14. Has there been a renewed interest in Adam Smith's teachings lately? (217-18) 

15. Describe the founders' attempts to make the welfare state unconstitutional. (218-19) 

16. How did the founders think the poor and needy should be provided for? (219-20) 

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