POL 303 (ASH) Academic Coach/uophelp

1
POL 303 Course Tutorial

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com

2
POL 303 Entire Course (Ash)

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• POL 303 Week 1 DQ 1 Judicial Review
• POL 303 Week 1 DQ 2 Congress and Federalism
• POL 303 Week 2 DQ 1 Religious Liberty
• POL 303 Week 2 DQ 2 Freedom of Expression
• POL 303 Week 2 Teaching Intelligent Design in
  the Public Schools
• POL 303 Week 3 DQ 1 Equal Protection and Gender
  Discrimination

3
POL 303 Week 1 DQ 1 Judicial Review (Ash)

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• Judicial Review. Respond to this 2-part question
  in your initial post
• a. What is the Supreme Court's justification for
  its claim to the power of judicial review in the
  American system of government? Fully explain
  Chief Justice Marshalls rationale in Marbury v.
  Madison.

4
POL 303 Week 1 DQ 2 Congress and Federalism (Ash)

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• Congress and Federalism. Respond to this 2-part
  question in your initial post
• a. What is the Supreme Court's justification for
  recognizing broad and expansive national power in
  Congress to address what some view as "local"
  problems? Fully explain the Courts rationale in
  McCulloch v. Maryland (by Marshall, C.J.) and the
  different rationales of various Justices in the
  2012 Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) cases.

5
POL 303 Week 2 DQ 1 Religious Liberty (Ash)

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• Religious Liberty. Respond to this 3-part
  question in your initial post
• Explain the Supreme Court's reasons, in Edwards
  v. Aguillard (the majority opinion by Justice
  Brennan), for holding that a law mandating the
  teaching of creationism in public schools
  violates the Constitutions ban on establishment
  of religion.

6
POL 303 Week 2 DQ 2 Freedom of Expression (Ash)

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• DQ 2 Freedom of Expression. In 2010 the Supreme
  Court, in a 5-4 decision, held that certain
  government restrictions on corporate funding of
  independent political broadcasts in candidate
  elections were unconstitutional (Citizens United
  v. Federal Election Commission). This
  controversial decision has been greeted with
  calls to overturn it by amending the
  Constitution. Respond to this 3-part question in
  your initial post

7
POL 303 Week 2 Teaching Intelligent Design in
the Public Schools (Ash)

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• Teaching Intelligent Design in the Public
  Schools. Write your paper about a hypothetical
  proposal that is before the elected school board
  for the public schools in your city. The proposal
  stirs deep controversy in the community.
  Opponents claim that it would violate the
  Constitutions prohibition against a
  establishment of religion. .

8
POL 303 Week 3 DQ 1 Equal Protection and Gender
Discrimination (Ash)

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• Equal Protection and Gender Discrimination. In
  recent years opportunities for women in the U.S.
  military have been expanding. But 200,000 jobs
  may remain closed to women for a variety of
  reasons. Recently two female Army Reserve
  officers sued the government for excluding them
  from formal assignment to specific Army combat
  units and other positions solely because of their
  gender (Sampson, 2012).

9
POL 303 Week 3 DQ 2 Constitutional Issues Related
to Same-gender Marriage (Ash)

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• Constitutional Issues Related to Same-gender
  Marriage. In 2012 the Armed Services Committee of
  the House of Representatives adopted, by a
  party-line vote, an amendment to the military
  defense budget for 2013 that would prohibit
  same-gender marriage ceremonies in base chapels
  serving members of the U.S. Armed Forces. If this
  amendment is enacted into law, it will change
  current.

10
POL 303 Week 3 Research Paper Draft (Ash)

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• Research Paper Draft. This is an opportunity to
  submit a draft or outline of the Research Paper
  for review and feedback from your instructor.
  Read the instructions for the Week Five Research
  Paper and create an outline for the structure of
  the paper. For information regarding writing an
  outline, reference to the Ashford Writing Center
  within the Learning Resources tab on the left
  navigation toolbar.

11
POL 303 Week 4 DQ 1 Suspicion-less Strip Searches
(Ash)

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• Suspicion-less Strip Searches. In 2012 the
  Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, upheld the
  constitutionality of routine (without probable
  cause) strip searches of persons arrested and
  detained, even briefly, in a jail (Florence v.
  Board of Chosen Freeholders of the Country of
  Burlington).

12
POL 303 Week 4 DQ 2 Cruel and Unusual Punishment
(Ash)

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• Cruel and Unusual Punishment. During the last
  decade, the Supreme Court has applied the 8th
  Amendments prohibition against cruel and unusual
  punishments against some of the harsher
  sentencing policies implemented by various
  states. Three cases dealing with juvenile
  offenders Roper v. Simmons (2005), Graham v.

13
POL 303 Week 5 DQ 1 Eminent Domain (Ash)

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• Eminent Domain. In 2005 the Supreme Court, in a
  5-4 decision, upheld the constitutionality of a
  city taking private property, while paying the
  owner just compensation, and selling it to a
  private developer as part of a plan to stimulate
  the city's weak economy (Kelo v. City of New
  London).

14
POL 303 Week 5 DQ 2 Right to Bear Arms (Ash)

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• Right to Bear Arms. In 2010 the Supreme Courts
  novel and controversial interpretation of the 2nd
  Amendment greatly limited governments power to
  restrict gun possession. The case McDonald v.
  Chicago sparked widespread debate across the
  political and legal community, some of which is
  expressed in the articles you read for this
  discussion.

15
POL 303 Final Exam Guide (Ash)

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com
• Focus of the Research Paper
• In this essay you will research a case that is
  actively pending before the Supreme Court of the
  United States (not yet decided by the Court when
  you submit your essay at the end of Week Five).
  It must be a case that raises significant issues
  involving the interpretation of the Constitution.

16
POL 303 Course Tutorial

• For more course tutorials visit
• www.uophelp.com