Do you believe policies of preemptive war or preventive war against “rogue” nations helps prevent terrorists from obtaining and using weapons of mass destruction? If one presidential administration adopts a policy of unilateralism in the war on terrorism, do future presidents have their options narrowed when it comes to asking other countries for help in preventing terrorist attacks?

Because it is so expensive to air campaign ads, should presidential candidates stop producing them? Is watching candidates’ appearances on television shows hosted by Oprah Winfrey, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Larry King is a better way to assess the candidates’ personalities and styles?

Go online (to a Web site such as Project Vote Smart at www.vote-smart.org) to discover just how many political parties there are in the United States. Do you think a multiparty system would make politics more interesting? Or are you more comfortable with the positions on issues taken by the Democrats and the Republicans?

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist once said that the independence of the judiciary is “one of the crown jewels of our system of government today.” If that is the case, why have there been so many attempts over the years to restrain the power of the federal judiciary?

Would you prefer to have a judiciary that is more accountable to the will of the people.

Are judicial accountability and judicial independence necessarily at odds?