US Senator Marco Rubio tweeted on May 13, 2015: “America is the first power in history motivated by a desire to expand freedom rather than its own territory.” For your essay, you will evaluate this statement by answering the following questions:
• What evidence might you use to prove his statement to be true?
• What evidence might you use to disprove it?
• Do you think that this statement is mostly true or mostly false? Why?