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POL 201 Entire Course For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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
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POL 201 Week 1 DQ 1 Separation of Powers Checks
and Balances For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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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POL 201 Week 1 DQ 2 Amending the U.S.
Constitution For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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.
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POL 201 Week 2 DQ 1 Policy-making in the Federal
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om   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.
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POL 201 Week 2 DQ 2 Meet Your Rep For more
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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
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POL 201 Week 2 Short Essay - Policy-making in the
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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.
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POL 201 Week 3 DQ 1 Presidential Leadership and
the Electoral College For more classes
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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.
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POL 201 Week 3 DQ 2 Defense Spending and the
Military-Industrial Complex For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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
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POL 201 Week 4 DQ 2 Habeas Corpus and the War on
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om   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,
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POL 201 Week 5 DQ 1 Party Platforms and Winning
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l.com   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 For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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 For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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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