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Essay Instructions: Write an essay (maximum of three pages) outlining the historical development of the U.S. Constitution.
Discuss the historical roots (European and American) of the Constitution and the reasons for a change of government.
Address the effects of regional and political differences on the creation of this document.
Discuss the compromises necessary to achieve ratification of the Constitution.
only need to use this for the reference:
Welch, S., Gruhl, J., Comer, J., Rigdon, S., & Ambrosius, M. Understanding American Government, 6th ed., pp. 24-51.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/const.html

some of these keywords need to be in the essay:
Bias, bill of rights, constitutional guarantees, civil rights, discrimination, ethnic, equality in law, freedom/liberty, public good, racism or racial, rule of law. Tolerance, access to power, common good vs. individual freedom, public vs. private interests, democracy vs. republic, elite vs. suppressed minority, inalienable rights, plurality vs. majority, principle of equality, social contract



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Essay Instructions: Search the Internet for three scholarly articles on the debate surrounding the composition and ratification of the Constitution. These can be primary or secondary sources but should come from academic sources. Recommended sites include: state constitutions drafted after the American Revolution; correspondence from significant colonial figures (e.g., John Dickinson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and others); the Virginia and/or New Jersey Plan; the Federalist Papers, and so on.

WEBLIOGRAPHY GRADING GUIDELINES

General Instructions
For the Webliography, you should have 3 websites that you have found that relate to the Articles of Confederation and/or the Constitution. Write a 4-6 sentence description of a URL on the specified topic. Submit it to the appropriate drop box AND post it to the Webliography in the course.

Your Webliography assignments should include an introduction to the site and a description, and/or evaluation, of it. Be specific. The key is that someone should be able to read your entry and know whether this site is what they might be relevant to their research. See the examples below for good descriptions.

Do not duplicate entries.



Example

Pennsylvania State Constitution of 1776. (2008)

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/pa08.asp

The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 (ratified September 28, 1776) has been described as the most democratic in America and was drafted by Robert Whitehill, Timothy Matlack, Dr. Thomas Young, George Bryan, James Cannon, and Benjamin Franklin. The Constitution provides for a unicameral legislature, a Supreme Executive Council, a President elected by an Assembly and Council together, and a Council of Censors. The constitution was later copied by revolutionaries of Vermont as a basis for their constitution. This site is useful as it gives us an insight into the debate over constitutional government that would culminate in 1787.

Grading Criteria

?The entry is from an academic or literary source.
?You have included a helpful description of at least 4-6 sentences that tells us what we?ll find on the site.
?Your description is grammatically and mechanically correct.
?The URL is correct.
?You have not duplicated an entry.
?The URL is NOT from Wikipedia or other wiki or social media sites

Essay Instructions: This research paper should be able to demonstrate the ability to research and analyze a historical or contemporary European foreign policy decision or debate and to ground that analysis in the assessment of differing determinants (international, domestic, and governmental) of that policy decision.

The paper should focus on the European Union and its ratification of the Kyoto Protocol and how it has affected or framed the current climate change policy of the EU. Also, it should trace the evolution or the historical events that might have led to the decision to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. The paper should examine the different factors as to why the decision was made and how that decision affects the EU and its member states. It should also include the current climate change policy that the EU has and how the Kyoto Protocol helped frame it or affected it. It should also give important historical events (ie. conferences, summits, etc.) that played a role in the ratification of the Protocol and pushed for the climate change policy of the EU.

If someone was to read this paper, they should be able to understand why the protocol was ratified by the EU and how it has changed the climate change policy of the EU.

There are no minimum footnotes and citations.

Essay Instructions: 1st amendment
- its key provisions
- conflict or debate surrounding its ratification ( importance then ) ( did they argue at the time, and how did the argue? )
- conflict or debate since its ratification ( importance now )
- importance at the time of its ratification
- continuing importance to American citizens
-ONE Supreme Court case that either challenged its provisions or used its provisions to support some position, argument, or event ( defense, or precedent )
- why important enough to be put in, why important enough now