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  • HIS 303 Entire Course
  • HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 1 English Politics and
    Political Traditions
  • 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
  • Americans often imagine that their political
    institutions and principles are unique and
    unheralded yet, many of them might be traced
    back to the heritage of England at the time the
    colonies were first formed, and over the course
    of the colonial period as English political
    institutions evolved. Identify the ways that
    English politics and political traditions
    influenced the political and legal institutions
    of colonial America.

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  • HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 2 The Constitutional Convention
    of 1787
  • HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 1 Powers of the Federal
    Government
  • The Constitutional Convention of 1787. Americans
    today generally revere the Constitution and
    appeal to it as an impeccable authority on
    current events (even when the Americans in
    question have never closely read the
    Constitution). However, when the Constitution was
    first presented to the American people, many of
    them opposed it and the nation almost did not
    ratify it. Even among the original framers of the
    Constitution (Framers) themselves, some, like
    Benjamin Franklin, thought it was imperfect and a
    few, like George Mason, refused to sign it.
  • Powers of the Federal Government. Many Americans
    today believe the federal government has acquired
    too much power, size, and influence in the
    nations domestic affairs. Throughout U.S.
    history, a tension has existed regarding what
    powers the federal government can assume and what
    powers should be left to the states. Review the
    text of the Constitution for evidence about the
    relationship the document establishes between
    national and state governments. Then review the
    history of the United States through the Civil
    War for evidence of how that relationship worked
    in progress, and changed over time.

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  • HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 2 A Symbolic Figurehead
  • HIS 303 Week 2 Early Constitutional Controversies
  • DQ 2 A Symbolic Figurehead. Americans tend to pay
    more attention to the president than to any other
    government official, blaming him when things go
    wrong, even in areas over which the president has
    little control, and crediting him with successes
    which stem from the legislature instead of the
    executive. In many ways, the president serves as
    a symbolic figurehead of both the government and
    the nation, with the consequence that the
    executive often overshadows the other branches of
    government. Review the powers and
    responsibilities which the Constitution grants to
    the president.
  • Early Constitutional Controversies. In 1788,
    Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, who had
    both played active roles at the Constitutional
    Convention, worked together to write The
    Federalist Papers, a series of articles
    originally published in New York newspapers to
    convince readers to back the ratification of the
    Constitution. Constitutional scholars often refer
    to these papers to gain an appreciation of the
    original intention of the Framers, how those
    men expected the federal government to operate
    under the Constitution, and the powers they
    sought to grant or deny the federal government.

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  • HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 1 The Constitution and
    Reconstruction
  • HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 2 Populists and Progressives
  • The Constitution and Reconstruction. A common
    misconception about the end of the Civil War is
    that, after ending slavery, the federal
    government did nothing to assist former slaves.
    In fact, the Constitution itself was
    substantially altered to define the rights of
    Americans and to allow the federal government to
    protect those rights. Review the contents of the
    Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Nineteenth Amendments,
    along with the history of the period from 1865 to
    1933.
  • Populists and Progressives. According to much
    populist rhetoric since the 1980s, the federal
    government is too active in domestic affairs,
    particularly the economy. Yet, a century earlier,
    the Populists and Progressives a agitated to have
    the federal government intervene more actively in
    domestic affairs. Explain why many Americans
    during this period from 1880 to 1930 favored a
    more activist federal government.

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  • HIS 303 Week 3 Supreme Court Decision
  • HIS 303 Week 4 DQ 1 The New Deal
  • Supreme Court Decision. The judiciary is one of
    the three branches involved in the checks and
    balances associated with the U.S. government
    under the Constitution. It is also the branch
    over which the American people have the least
    direct control, making it particularly
    controversial, especially when it seems to
    controvert the popular will as expressed through
    the legislature.
  • The New Deal. Franklin Roosevelts New Deal
    greatly expanded the federal governments role in
    the countrys domestic and economic affairs,
    which led to a long-running constitutional crisis
    in the 1930s that remains controversial to this
    day. Although the Supreme Court threw out several
    New Deal programs, others survived and laid the
    foundation for later developments over the next
    three decades.

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  • HIS 303 Week 4 DQ 2 The Bill of Rights
  • HIS 303 Week 5 DQ 1 Conservative Constitutionalism
  • The Bill of Rights. After the Preamble, The Bill
    of Rights is probably the most famous section of
    the Constitution, but is often imperfectly
    understood. For instance, the Bill of Rights
    initially served only to limit the actions of the
    federal government, and did not protect citizens
    from the actions of state governments (as
    affirmed in the 1833 Supreme Court case of Barron
    v. Baltimore). Moreover, many rights that
    Americans take for grantedsuch as votingdo not
    appear in the Bill of Rights, and many other
    rights were not fully articulated or protected
    until the mid-twentieth century.
  • Conservative Constitutionalism. Historians
    sometimes speak of the Reagan Revolution that
    occurred after Ronald Reagan became president in
    1981. This revolution represented a conservative
    backlash against the liberalism of the first half
    of the twentieth century, and arguably continues
    to set the tone of political debate in the
    country today. 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?

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  • HIS 303 Week 5 DQ 2 Expansion of Executive Power
  • HIS 303 Week 5 Final Paper
  • Expansion of Executive Power. Classical
    republican philosophy warned against the
    expansion of executive power, and throughout U.S.
    history, critics have assailed presidentsfrom
    Washington, to Jackson, to Lincoln, and
    beyondfor allegedly abusing their power in
    tyrannical ways. These fears arguably peaked
    during the Cold War, when foreign policy, a
    matter often delegated to the executive, expanded
    exponentially in importance.
  • From the time the Constitution was ratified,
    Americans have disagreed over its meaning and the
    extent of the powers it gave to different
    branches and reserved to the states and the
    people. Since the Constitution took effect, it
    has been amended several times and, just as
    importantly, interpretations of the Constitution
    have changed over time. For this assignment,
    examine the history of one constitutional issue
    in depth and explain how, and why, understandings
    of, and approaches to, the issue have changed
    over from colonial times through the present.

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