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• HIS 303 Entire Course (Ash)

• HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 1 English Politics

• HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 1 English Politics and
  Political Traditions
• HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 2 The Constitutional Convention
  of 1787
• HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 1 Powers of the Federal
  Government
• HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 2 A Symbolic Figurehead
• HIS 303 Week 2 Early Constitutional Controversies
• HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 1 The Constitution and
  Reconstruction
• HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 2 Populists and Progressives
• HIS 303 Week 3 Supreme Court Decision

• What aspects of the English political heritage
  did the colonists claim for themselves? How did
  English institutions and principles evolve in the
  colonies? How and why had English and American
  conceptions of their shared political heritage
  diverged so sharply by the middle of the 1700s?

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• HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 2 The Constitutional Convention
  of 1787 (Ash)

• HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 1 Powers of the Federal
  Government (Ash)

• What weaknesses did the earlier Articles of
  Confederation seem to contain and how
  specifically did the Constitution address those
  apparent weaknesses? What major differences
  divided the Framers at the

• What major controversies during this time period
  raised questions about the proper relationship
  between the state and federal governments? How
  did proponents and opponents of state sovereignty
  defend their respective positions? How did the
  question of slavery intermix with the question of
  states rights?

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• HIS 303 Week 2 Early Constitutional Controversies
  (Ash)

• HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 2 A Symbolic Figurehead (Ash)

• How did the role of the president change from
  1789 to 1865? Which presidents were most
  responsible for those changes? How did the
  judiciary and the legislature encourage or seek
  to curtail the expansion of executive power?

• Topics to consider include
• 1.The incorporation of the Bank of the United
  States
• 2.Debt assumption
• 3.The Jay Treaty
• 4.The Alien and Sedition Acts
• 5.The Election of 1800
• 6.John Marshalls use of judicial review

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• HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 1 The Constitution and
  Reconstruction (Ash)

• HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 2 Populists and Progressives
  (Ash)

• What developments led the Populists and
  Progressives to call for a more activist federal
  government? How did they hope to change the
  nature of state and federal government as they
  expanded its power? On what grounds did
  conservatives, especially in the courts, oppose
  the policies proposed by Populists and
  Progressives?

• What did womens rights activists gain between
  1865 and 1933? Who gained more during this time
  period, women or Blacks? What unique
  disadvantages did black women face? What rights
  did workers gain during this period, and what
  rights did they demand, but fail to gain? What
  role did the federal government play during this
  period in expanding and ensuring the rights of
  citizens?

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• HIS 303 Week 3 Supreme Court Decision (Ash)

• HIS 303 Week 4 DQ 1 The New Deal (Ash)

• Assess the New Deal as a revolution in
  constitutionalism. How did the New Deals
  supporters justify the constitutionality of its
  programs? What objections did opponents of the
  New Deal raise? How and why did the Supreme
  Courts stance on the New Deal change over time?

• You are free to write about any Supreme Court
  case, though you are advised to use a case
  related to the topic of your final paper. Note,
  though, that you may not recycle substantial
  passages from this assignment in the Final Paper.
  The paper should include an analysis of the text
  of the decision, and should also draw from two
  scholarly secondary sources obtained through the
  Ashford University library.

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• HIS 303 Week 4 DQ 2 The Bill of Rights (Ash)

• HIS 303 Week 5 DQ 1 Conservative
  Constitutionalism (Ash)

• Identify the key ideological components of the
  conservative constitutionalism associated with
  the Reagan Era and the Rehnquist Court. In
  practice, how did conservative constitutionalism
  affect American politics and the American
  government? Has the influence of conservative
  constitutionalism increased or declined in the
  decades since Reagan left office?

• What rights did the Constitution, as originally
  written (i.e., before the addition of the Bill of
  Rights), protect? What rights did the Bill of
  Rights add? How did the Fourteenth Amendment and
  the process of incorporation change the nature of
  the Bill of Rights? What new rights would be
  added from the 1950s through the 1970s?

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• HIS 303 Week 5 DQ 2 Expansion of Executive Power
  (Ash)

• HIS 303 Week 5 Final Paper (Ash)

• For this assignment, chose from one of the
  following issues
• Executive power
• Definitions of citizenship and citizens rights
• Relationship between state and federal
  governments
• Role of the judiciary
• Foreign affairs

• How did the power of the executive expand during
  the second half of the twentieth century? How did
  Congress and the judiciary respond to this
  expansion of executive power? In what ways did
  they resist, and in what instances did they
  acquiesce to it? Has a new imperial presidency
  emerged in the wake of the attacks of September
  11, 2001?

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