A Moral Basis of a Free Society
From H. Verlan Andersen's book with the above title
Circle the Y, N, or ? (Yes, No, ?=no response/no opinion) Fill in the blanks to indicate your.
Y N ? 1. Have you read the Constitution within the last four years?
Y N ? 2. Have you ever read the Communist Manifesto?
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Y N ? 3. Do you favor graduated tax rates on income?
Y N ? 4. Do you favor an unrestricted power in government to tax inheritances?
Y N ? 5. Do you favor a return to the gold and silver standard of the Constitution?
Y N ? 6. Do you favor federal regulation of transportation & communication businesses?
Y N ? 7. Do you favor a system of free public education?
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Y N ? 8. For the purpose of providing for the less fortunate, do you feel government
should have the power to completely equalize all incomes?
Y N ? 9. If not, do you believe the poor have some claim on government for their subsistence needs?
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Y N ? 10. Should government have the power to prohibit child labor?
Y N ? 11. Should government have the power to set minimum wages?
Y N ? 12. Should government have the power to license every economic activity?
Y N ? 13. Should government be completely without such licensing power?
Y N ? 14. If you believe in some, but not complete licensing power, indicate three
trades, professions, businesses, etc. which should be licensed:
a) b) c)
List three which should not be licensed:
a) b) c)
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Y N ? 15. Government should have the power to regulate the operation of all economic activities.
Y N ? 16. Government should not have the power to regulate any legitimate economic activity.
Y N ? 17. If you believe in some, but not complete government regulation, do you feel you could
draw a precise line between those activities that should and should not be regulated?
Y N ? 18. Government should have the power to set minimum standards for all goods and services.
Y N ? 19. If you favor a partial, but not complete set of government standards, name three products
or services for which standards should be set by government:
a) b) c)
Name three products or services for which standards should not be set:
a) b) c)
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Y N ? 20. Should government have the power to bring waste lands into production and engage in
soil conservation programs?
Y N ? 21. Should government have the power to control natural resources such as rivers, lakes,
forests and mineral deposits?
Y N ? 22. Should governments sell to private individuals all the land they now own except that
which is necessary for defense and protection of rights?
Y N ? 23. I believe that there is a distinct line between those circumstances under which the
government should compel people against their will and those where it should not.
Y N ? 24. I believe that the scriptures provide accurate guidance regarding the distinction between
good and bad laws.