Political quiz

Public schools are the best way to educate students. Vouchers (the choice to go to charter schools) take money away from public schools. Government should focus on additional funds on existing public schools, raising teacher salaries and reducing class sizes.

• Conservative Belief

• Liberal Belief

School vouchers create competition and therefore encourage schools to improve performance. Vouchers will give all parents the right to choose good schools for their children, not just those who can afford private schools.

• Liberal Belief

• Conservative Belief

The death penalty is a punishment that fits the crime of murder; it is neither ‘cruel’ nor ‘unusual.’ Executing a murderer is the appropriate punishment for taking an innocent life.

• Conservative Belief

• Liberal Belief

The death penalty should be abolished. It is inhumane and is ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment. Imprisonment is the appropriate punishment for murder. Every execution risks killing an innocent person.

• Liberal Belief

• Conservative Belief

Global warming is caused by an increased production of carbon dioxide through the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas). Proposed laws to reduce carbon emissions in the U.S. are urgently needed and should be enacted immediately to save the planet.

• Conservative Belief

• Liberal Belief

Individuals do not need guns for protection; it is the role of the local and federal government to protect the people through law enforcement agencies and the military. Additional gun control laws are necessary to stop gun violence.

• Conservative Belief

• Liberal Belief

The Second Amendment gives citizens the right to keep and bear arms. Individuals have the right to defend themselves. Additional laws will not lower gun crime rates.

• Conservative Belief

• Liberal Belief

Support legal immigration. Support blanket amnesty for those who enter the U.S. illegally (undocumented immigrants). Also believe that undocumented immigrants have a right to: (1) All educational and health benefits that citizens receive. (2) The same rights as American citizens

• Liberal Belief

• Conservative Belief

Supports legal immigration only. Oppose amnesty for those who enter the U.S. illegally. Those who break the law by entering the U.S. illegally do not have the same rights as those who obey the law and enter legally.

• Conservative Belief

• Liberal Belief

Government should be more involved in all aspects of our lives.

• Liberal

• Conservative