How does public opinion affect our american national

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Questions: Answer the following questions in at least four sentences about Letter From a Birmingham Jail:

1. How does public opinion affect our American national government?

2. How does legislative policy affect our American national government?

3. How does the Supreme Court affect our American national government?

4. Describe Dr. King's purpose in writing this letter. What is he attempting to explain to his audience?

5. What is the promise that King explains the merchants broke which may have prevented the direct action he's describing?

6. What was the direct action seeking to get the merchants to do?

7. Thinking back to Dr. King's intended audience and purpose, why is he describing these delays in the direct action? What is he trying to communicate to his audience?

8. What, according to Dr. King, is the purpose of direct action?

9. Explain how each of these concepts fit in the context of Dr. King's argument. nonviolent direct action, tension, negotiation, policy change that advances civil rights. Now, explain the relationship between these concepts in the context of Dr. King's argument.

10. How does Dr. King's claim relate to his argument?

11. What is one specific example of the use of legal pressure by the civil rights movement of the 1960s?

12. What was the process for achieving gains in civil rights that Dr. King described in his argument?

13. What challenges might a social movement using this process encounter? How might a social movement using this process overcome this challenge?

14. What is one implication of the process outlined in Dr. King's argument? How might this process affect policy-making, other social movements, or another political principle, institution, process, policy, or behavior?

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