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FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.pol201genius.com POL 201 Week 1 DQ 1 Separation of Powers Checks and Balances POL 201 Week 1 DQ 2 Amending the U.S. Constitution POL 201 Week 2 DQ 1 Policy-making in the Federal System POL 201 Week 2 DQ 2 Meet Your Rep POL 201 Week 2 Short Essay - Policy-making in the Federal System POL 201 Week 3 DQ 1 Presidential Leadership and the Electoral College POL 201 Week 3 DQ 2 Defense Spending and the Military-Industrial Complex POL 201 Week 4 DQ 1 The Supreme Court and Judicial Review POL 201 Week 4 DQ 2 Habeas Corpus and the War on Terror POL 201 Week 5 DQ 1 Party Platforms and Winning Elections POL 201 Week 5 DQ 2 Voting and Turnout POL 201 Week 5 Final Paper Civil Liberties, Habeas Corpus, and the War on Terror – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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POL 201 GENIUS Education Expert/pol201geniusdotco
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  • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
  • www.pol201genius.com

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POL 201 Entire Course (Ash)
  • POL 201 Week 1 DQ 1 Separation of Powers Checks
    and Balances
  • POL 201 Week 1 DQ 2 Amending the U.S.
    Constitution
  • POL 201 Week 2 DQ 1 Policy-making in the Federal
    System
  • POL 201 Week 2 DQ 2 Meet Your Rep
  • POL 201 Week 2 Short Essay - Policy-making in the
    Federal System
  • POL 201 Week 3 DQ 1 Presidential Leadership and
    the Electoral College

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POL 201 Week 1 DQ 1 Separation of Powers Checks
and Balances (Ash)
  • Separation of Powers/Checks and Balances. For
    much of 2011 and 2012, public dissatisfaction
    with Congress rose to all time highs, with 70-80
    expressing disapproval with how Congress does its
    job. Many commentators note that Americans are
    fed up with Washington "grid-lock" that makes
    government apparently unable to address important
    problems.

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POL 201 Week 1 DQ 2 Amending the U.S.
Constitution (Ash)
  • Amending the U.S. Constitution. The formal
    process of amending the Constitution is
    cumbersome and slow. While this fact explains why
    relatively few amendments have been adopted, it
    does not discourage advocates of constitutional
    change from proposing them. Four amendment
    proposals that have gained considerable attention
    are the Balanced Budget Amendment, the Birthright
    Citizenship Amendment

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POL 201 Week 2 DQ 1 Policy-making in the Federal
System (Ash)
  • Policy-making in the Federal System. The U.S.
    government's expansive role in public policy is
    caught in a swirl of conflicting cross-currents.
    On the one hand, popular expectations about
    government's responsibility to solve problems
    often exceed the capacity of state and local
    authorities to respond effectively. On the other
    hand, policies developed at the national level
    may not sufficiently reflect the great diversity
    of interests across the U.S.

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POL 201 Week 2 DQ 2 Meet Your Rep (Ash)
  • Meet Your Rep. The Constitution states, "The
    House of Representatives shall be composed of
    Members chosen every second Year by the People of
    the several States..." (Art. I, Sec. 2). Contrast
    this with the original constitutional language
    for the other house of Congress, "The Senate of
    the United States shall be composed of two
    Senators from each State, chosen by the
    Legislature thereof for six Years..."

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POL 201 Week 2 Short Essay - Policy-making in the
Federal System (Ash)
  • Short Essay Policy-making in the Federal
    System. The U.S. government's expansive role in
    public policy is caught in a swirl of conflicting
    cross-currents. On the one hand, popular
    expectations about government's responsibility to
    solve problems often exceed the capacity of state
    and local authorities to respond effectively. On
    the other hand, policies developed at the
    national level may not sufficiently

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POL 201 Week 3 DQ 1 Presidential Leadership and
the Electoral College (Ash)
  • Presidential Leadership and the Electoral
    College. Americans expect their presidents to get
    things done, to solve problems, to govern
    effectively, and to be strong leaders. The
    framers of the Constitution did not envision such
    presidential leadership. A scholar of the
    presidency points out that Article II of the
    Constitution gives the president scant formal
    power to influence congressional policy-making
    (Simon, n.d.).

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POL 201 Week 3 DQ 2 Defense Spending and the
Military-Industrial Complex (Ash)
  • Defense Spending and the Military-Industrial
    Complex. Levin-Waldman (2012, pp. 186-89)
    analyzes how "iron triangles" link Congress, the
    bureaucracy, and interest groups in self-serving
    relationships that influence policy in ways that
    are contrary to the public interest. In 1961, at
    the end of President Eisenhower's second term

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POL 201 Week 4 DQ 1 The Supreme Court and
Judicial Review (Ash)
  • POL 201 Week 4 DQ 1 The Supreme Court and
    Judicial Review (Ash) The Supreme Court and
    Judicial Review. In a recent lecture at Yale
    University, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
    cautioned that while most citizens assume that
    judicial review is an enduring part of American
    government, judges should not take it for
    granted.

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POL 201 Week 4 DQ 2 Habeas Corpus and the War on
Terror (Ash)
  • Habeas Corpus and the War on Terror. Soon after
    the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the
    Bush administration developed a plan for holding
    and interrogating prisoners captured during the
    conflict. They were sent to a prison inside a
    U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay on land leased
    from the government of Cuba. Since 2002, over 700
    men have been detained at "GITMO."

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POL 201 Week 5 DQ 1 Party Platforms and Winning
Elections (Ash)
  • Party Platforms and Winning Elections. Political
    parties mobilize voters to win elections and
    implement policy goals. Parties use their stated
    policy goals (i.e., their platforms) as a way to
    mobilize voter support. Generally, in order to be
    successful in a two-party system, parties must
    have policy goals across a broad range of issue
    areas to appeal to a broad range of voters.

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POL 201 Week 5 DQ 2 Voting and Turnout (Ash)
  • Voting and Turnout. The U.S. has one of the
    lowest voter turnout rates among modern
    democratic political systems. One study ranks the
    U.S. 120th on a list of 169 nations compared on
    voter turnout (Pintor, Gratschew, Sullivan,
    2002). While during the last decade many
    initiatives have been undertaken to increase
    voter participation

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POL 201 Week 5 Final Paper Civil Liberties,
Habeas Corpus, and the War on Terror (Ash)
  • The final assignment for this course is a Final
    Paper. The purpose of the Final Paper is to give
    you an opportunity to apply much of what you have
    learned about American national government to an
    examination of civil liberties in the context of
    the war on terror. The Final Paper represents 20
    of the overall course grade.

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