Analysis of the Constitution

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There are five (5) tasks for the Legal Project, as follows:

Analysis of the Constitution
Read and analyze the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Choose the institutional power and personal right you would remove, and explain why; and add a power and right that you would include, and explain why. Two to four (2-4) pages, double spaced.

Homeland Security Legislative Issues
Write a four to six (4-6) page, double spaced, legislative analysis of only 1 of the following bills form the 116th Congress. Your analysis should include consideration of the:

Legislative History;
Agency Involvement;
Cost Implications (CBO Score);
Committee Reports;
Pros and Cons of the legislation;
Recommendation to the head of the agency on implementing the Act;
Grammar and compliance to APA (6th) including citations and reference page;
Double spaced; and
Times New Roman, 12 point font.
Pick only one (1) from the following:

H.R. 1593—CLASS Act of 2019
House Committee Report 116-25
CBO Score H.R. 1593
H.R. 1589—CBRN Intelligence and Information Sharing Act of 2019
House Committee Report 116-24
CBO Score H.R. 1589
Identification of two (2) Post 9/11 Homeland Security Events
As we study this new concept of “Homeland Security,” we quickly learn that threats to national security are not new. In fact, the United States faced major threats to its existence even before it was officially a nation. Identify and describe two such events in U.S. history that occurred after September 11, 2001, and explain why this event/threat is similar to a current emerging homeland security event. Four (4) pages, double spaced.

Legal Research Exercise
Beginning with Executive Order (EO) 13873 signed on May 5, 2019, analyze President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency in regards to securing the information and communications technology and services supply chain. Your paper should clearly discuss the EO’s possible impact on the National Security agenda of protecting citizens from foreign national terrorists while evaluating agency implementation, and the role federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support your argument. All requirements of prompt and format must be met to receive full credit.

Grades are based on the following:

Pros vs cons on the EO;
Recommendation to your superior on the implementation;
What will be the outcome by the Supreme Court, and why;
Four (4) pages;
Grammar and compliance to APA (6th) including citations and reference page;
Double spaced; and
Times New Roman, 12 point font.
Presidential Directive Draft
For this task, you must use the current emerging threat that you identified in part 3 to articulate and format your proposed solution as a Presidential Directive. Use directives supplied in part 2 as an example of how to format the task. One to two (1-2) pages, double spaced. Please use APA 6th or 7th edition.

Please use just one document with 5 separate headings. One question I have received is on part 5. Yes you are drafting your very own Presidential Directive based on an emerging threat of your choosing. Please make sure its original.

Why are third-party candidates unsuccessful in Texas politics?

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Discussion topic

 

The guidelines for this assignment are outlined in the course syllabus.

Please address the following topic in your primary post. Once you have submitted your primary post, you must reply to any student’s post on this topic to complete the assignment requirements:

Why are third-party candidates unsuccessful in Texas politics? If Texas had proportional representation for the state legislature, do you think the number of third-party candidates winning seats would increase? Why or why not?

 

You will not be able to see the work of other students until you have submitted your original posting.

Remember:

· You cannot get an A on this assignment unless all key arguments, facts, assertions and claims in both your primary and reply posts are substantively supported with high quality research citations.

· Always identify sources with both MLA in-text (parenthetical) citations and references (in a Works Cited section at the end of your posting).

· The minimum writing requirement must be met and exceeded using your own words (do not include cited information in your word count).

· Don’t forget to include your word count!

· Both the original and reply post must be submitted by the assignment due date in order to receive any credit for this assignment.

All submissions are checked for plagiarism using SafeAssign. Plagiarized submissions will result in an automatic zero in this course.

 

 

Subject rule

 

1. Each “required” activity must be submitted to earn credit for the course.

1. All assignments must have a cover page with the following information: Your name, course and section number, semester of enrollment, a word count and a title indicating the topic of your essay. The word count should reflect your own work (do not include citations, paraphrased information, quotes, the cover page, or the works cited page). Do not repeat the cover page information as a header in the body of your assignment.

1. Each student is expected to utilize peer-reviewed articles from academic journals for the writing assignments. There is a tool built into the course to help you obtain quality sources for your writing assignment, it is labeled “research center” on the main menu of the course. For current events related information, use a newspaper, news magazine, news website, a court case or an actual law. The course textbook, Wikipedia, internet search engines, blogs and similar items are examples of unacceptable research sources on the collegiate level.

1. Only your own words will count toward the writing requirements. The writing assignments are intended to assess your comprehension of the material. Meaning, cited and paraphrased information should not be in your word counts.

1. All assignments are expected to meet college level writing requirements; all answers are to be in essay format and the expectation is for each student to engage the topics using critical analysis. Please do not attempt to provide simplified or elementary answers if you wish to earn credit for your work. Take the time to fully explain your ideas and demonstrate the depth of your understanding to earn the grade you want.

1. Failure to identify sources is plagiarism. All sources are to be documented within the body of the assignment and on a works cited page using MLA citation format. Within the essay use parenthetical, in-text citations. Do not use footnotes or endnotes.

1. Do not recycle (or self-plagiarize) a paper from another course. Work submitted in other courses cannot be submitted in this course without prior consent from both instructors. Submitting an assignment that has been used in another course, without prior approval, will result in a zero for that activity. Everyone is expected to submit authentic work.

1. Do not use first person tones in the writing assignments. The prompts are designed to help you think about the topic, not to generate a direct response. First person tone is inappropriate in a college essay, but may be used in discussion forum activities or assignments that specifically require it.

1. The formatting requirements for all assignments are: typed / word processed, double-spaced, size 12 font, Arial or Times New Roman script, 1 inch margins (default setting), and a limited number of grammatical errors.

1. All assignments are to be submitted as one electronic file to the appropriately titled online dropbox. Again, all pages of an assignment (cover page, body text, and works cited) are to be submitted together. Assignments will not be accepted via any other delivery method, unless prior approval was obtained.

1. Assignments submitted online must be in one of the following file formats: doc, docx, rtf or txt. All other document formats are unacceptable. Files submitted to eCampus that are incomplete, blank, cannot be read by SafeAssign system, opened in Microsoft Word or which are otherwise corrupted will automatically receive a zero as non-submissions. Do not use the “Write Submission” button when submitting assignments in the Dropbox.

There is no credit for partial work. The minimum research criteria and the minimum writing criteria must be satisfied to earn a grade. Incomplete assignments will receive a zero.

 

Participation and Professionalism

I expect active and informed involvement in class discussions. If you do not participate at all, you will get zero (0) participation points. I will factor student visits to my office or email correspondence on matters germane to the course.

Could nuclear war fit the just war model? Why or why not?

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1.Could nuclear war fit the just war model? Why or why not?

2. Many later observers have seen their own times reflected in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian Warand have perceived close parallels between the Peloponnesian War and conflicts they observed first-hand. Others argue that the Peloponnesian War was different in important ways from most wars and should not be used to infer lessons about managing foreign policy or conflict today.What two lessons, according to you, can be drawn from Thucydides’ account for the conduct of foreign policy or conflict today?

Define ‘regionalism’ (30 words or less).

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  1. Define ‘regionalism’ (30 words or less).
  2. Is the creation of regional governance structures a contradiction to globalization?
  3. Why is the pace of military integration different from economic integration in the EU?
  4. How has globalization both contributed to and been a response to regional integration? Make reference to at least two examples.
  5. Could the EU become a superpower in the 21st century?
  6. Do you think different regions of the world will develop along the model of EU integration? Why or why not?
  7. How does African regional cooperation compare to regionalization in Europe? Is a comparison possible and useful? Why or why not?
  8. Is ASEAN increasingly coming to resemble the EU? If not, why not?
  9. Discuss the critical views on regional cooperation and their counterarguments. Which do you find more convincing?
  10. What makes the European Union unique as a political body in the ‘society of states’ and how does it challenge traditional IR approaches like neo-realism and neo-liberalism?
  11. Is European integration ‘turbo-charged globalization’ or protection against globalization? Be sure to cover key concepts like sovereignty, citizenship, the nation-state, market liberalization, and collaboration.
  12. Is the European Union poised to act as a counter-balance to the US? What effect would such a situation have on the NATO Alliance and their relationship in general?
  13. How have major powers promoted regional frameworks to pursue spheres of interest or influence? Discuss with reference to two examples.
  14. To what extent do regional organizations challenge realist assumptions about the primacy of the state?