{"id":671,"date":"2024-03-28T22:47:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T02:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/?p=671"},"modified":"2024-03-28T22:47:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T02:47:44","slug":"what-is-at-stake-in-the-next-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/2024\/03\/28\/what-is-at-stake-in-the-next-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"What is at stake in the next presidential election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think is at stake in the next presidential election? Some of you have said that the environment, reproductive rights, and immigration are three major issues that need to be settled. Think beyond specific issues, and describe what is at stake at the &#8220;meta&#8221; level. The United States has always claimed to be a nation of laws, not men. We also pride ourselves on providing citizens with a government that allows us to maximize our happiness and minimize our discomfort.\u00a0 What else do Americans believe about how people should live? How might an individual president, with all of the constraints we place on the executive impact our values or taint our &#8220;soul&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think is at stake in the next presidential election? Some of you have said that the environment, reproductive rights, and immigration are three major issues that need to be settled. Think beyond specific issues, and describe what is at stake at the &#8220;meta&#8221; level. The United States has always claimed to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/2024\/03\/28\/what-is-at-stake-in-the-next-presidential-election\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}