In this book, the author's primary task is to frame today's controversial public policy issues, in question form, present the major stances on the issues, and allow the reader to form a personal opinion on each matter. Basically, there are four types of arguments originally identified by Professor Richard Weaver: argument from authority; argument from analogy; argument from cause and effect; and argument from definition or principle. Contents: PROLOGUE: Dialogue Learning; Power, Public Policy and the Public Good; Levels of Argumentation; Acknowledgements; War PowersóGoing to War: Who is in Charge of the Charge?; The President versus The Congress; The Electoral College: To Retain or To Abolish?; Congress: Up With Congress or Down With Congress? Yeah or Nay?; Judgement Day Battle: Judicial Activism v. Judicial Restraint; Fiscal Policy: Deficit + Debt = Doom or Boom?; Do We Need a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution?; Social Policy: Hearts and Heads, Welfare Reform and a Guaranteed Annual Income; National Health Service: The Proper Cure or a Remedy Worse than the Disease?; Obscenity and Pornography: Where Do We Draw the Line?; The First Amendment Right of Freedom of Expression; The Community's Need to Protect Itself and Represent Norms; Legal Policy: The Legalization of Drugs? Right On or Just Say No? Fly High or Straighten Up?; Legal Policy: Capital Punishment: To Be or Not To Be?; The Course of Educational Reform: What's Up Doc?; Is There a Treatment or Are We The People Getting The Treatment?; National Public Service: A Patriotic Commitment or Forced Labor?; Index.
