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For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com ASHFORD POL 201 Week 1 DQ 1 Separation of Powers Checks and Balances ASHFORD POL 201 Week 1 DQ 2 Amending the U.S. Constitution ASHFORD POL 201 Week 2 DQ 1 Policy-making in the Federal System ASHFORD POL 201 Week 2 DQ 2 Meet Your Rep ASHFORD POL 201 Week 2 Short Essay - Policy-making in the Federal System ASHFORD POL 201 Week 3 DQ 1 Presidential Leadership and the Electoral College ASHFORD POL 201 Week 3 DQ 2 Defence Spending and the Military-Industrial Complex ASHFORD POL 201 Week 4 DQ 1 The Supreme Court and Judicial Review – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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  • ASHFORD POL 201 Entire Course
  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 1 DQ 1 Separation of Powers C
  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 1 DQ 1 Separation of Powers
    Checks and Balances
  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 1 DQ 2 Amending the U.S.
    Constitution
  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 2 DQ 1 Policy-making in the
    Federal System
  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 2 DQ 2 Meet Your Rep
  • 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. Other observers believe that the
    national government is acting according to its
    design, based on separation of powers and checks
    and balances.

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  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 1 DQ 2 Amending the U
  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 2 DQ 1 Policy
  • 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, the Equal Rights
  • 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. to be effective at
    the local level.

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  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 2 DQ 2 Meet Your Rep
  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 2 Short Essay
  • 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..." (Art. I,
    Sec. 3). The phrase "chosen by the Legislature"
    was changed to "elected by the people" by the
    17th Amendment, but not until 1912.
  • 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 reflect the
    great diversity of interests across the U.S. to
    be effective at the local level. Moreover, the
    search for effective

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  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 3 DQ 1 Presidential Leadershi
  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 3 DQ 2 Defence Spending and t
  • 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.).
  • 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, he
    gave a farewell address to the nation

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  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 4 DQ 1 The Supreme Court and
  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 4 DQ 2 Habeas Corpus and the
  • 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. He advises that
    if judges wish to preserve this undemocratic
    power they should follow a judicial philosophy
    that will "build confidence in the courts"
    (Breyer, 2011).
  • 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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  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 5 DQ 1 Party Platforms and Wi
  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 5 DQ 2 Voting and Turnout
  • 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, concerns about the
    possibility of election fraud have also
    increased.
  • 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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  • ASHFORD POL 201 Week 5 Final Paper Civil Liberties
  • 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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