Rights of the Texas Declaration of Independence and Texas Constitution

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Rights of the Texas Declaration of Independence and Texas Constitution

Comparison Chart

The first thing to do is to read the Texas Declaration of Independence and Article I of the Texas Constitution – both are attached to this assignment. Your chart will have three columns. The first column is for the specific right mentioned in the documents. The other columns are the following: One for the Texas Declaration of Independence, Texas Bill of Rights (Article I of the Texas Constitution). For each right mentioned or implied, list the sentence in which it appears in your chart under the proper document. Write as much of the sentence as required to make clear what the right is. If the same right is listed in another document, list it in the same row

Read the documents carefully and choose at least five “rights” to list and compare. To be eligible, the right must appear in both documents. Don’t pick a right that only appears in one document. I have given you one example—you may not use this as part of your five.

RIGHT                      l  Texas Declaration of Independence                                                              l  Texas Constitution, Article I (Texas Bill of Rights)

Right to Jury Trials  l  It has failed and refused to secure, on a firm basis, the right of trial by jury  l  The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate. (Art I. Sec. 15)

So to explain the example: The authors of the Texas Declaration complain that the Mexican government has refused to secure the right of trial by jury (paragraph 5).  This right is then guaranteed in the Texas Bill of Rights (section 10). In the first column, I put the right in question (right to jury trials), in the second column I put where in the Texas Declaration it says that Mexico violated that right, and in the third column I put the reference to the right to jury trial as it appears in the Texas Bill of Rights.

Now you find five others on your own!!! Think about the various rights claimed in these documents and pick from the following list: right to consent, right to vote, right to bear arms, right to security, right to life, right to liberty, right to property, right to education, right to equality, right of conscience, right to free speech, right to publish, right to an attorney, right to a writ of habeas corpus, right to just punishment, right not to be tried for the same crime twice, right to privacy, right to protest, right to petition, right to a warrant upon being searched.

Be sure whatever right you pick is referenced (in some way) in the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Texas Bill of Rights.

Which medieval queen was married to both Louis VII of France and Henry II of England?

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  1. It is thought that Harriet Tubman directly rescued around 300 people from slavery and gave instructions to help dozens more. But in which conflict did she become the first woman to lead an armed assault?
  2. In which country is the Bay of Pigs?
  3. Which medieval queen was married to both Louis VII of France and Henry II of England?

Analyze the government’s management of undocumented immigrants through the lens of some of the policy analysis theories you have learned in this course.

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Analyze the government’s management of undocumented immigrants through the lens of some of the policy analysis theories you have learned in this course. With an analysis rooted in these theories, make specific policy recommendations to the U.S. president to better respond to the situation of undocumented immigrants. After the conclusion of your paper, write a short one-paragraph response to your paper from the perspective of an advisor to the president with political views very different from your own. Finally, write a short one-paragraph response to their critique of your paper. (The page length maximum of 2 pages should include these additional two brief paragraphs. Your references should appear after these two brief paragraphs.)

Speech Assignment Creating A Bill

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Instructions: Before we begin our own bill writing, we want to make sure we have a full understanding of what a strong bill looks like. For this assingment, you will portions of bills and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each portion. Make sure to be detailed in your explanations and write in complete sentences.

 

*You might find it helpful to look back at the documents “CD – Example Bills” and “CD – Bill Template” which can be found under CD – Resource

 

 

 

Assignment:

 

 

Bill Analysis

The bills pulled from this assignment are from past student samples. You will analyze each section for strengths and weaknesses to make sure that YOUR bills are the best they can be.

Example:

1. This bill is about how we’re trying to make terrorism go away or stop it from happening.

a. Strengths: The summary clearly states the bill is about terrorism.

b. Weaknesses: The phrasing is informal and unspecific which does not create a strong foundation for the bill.

I. Section One: Summary

The Summary Section of a Bill should be at least one complete sentence summarizing the goal of the bill.

1. This bill will not increase income tax because it’s taking money from regular class citizens.

a. Strengths:

b. Weaknesses:

2. This bill shall grant that any person at the legal age of 18 should be allowed to buy and carry firearms.

a. Strengths:

b. Weaknesses:

 

Section Two: Definitions

The Definitions Section of a Bill should explain and describe in detail the critical aspect(s) of the bill. For example, if your bill is “A Bill to Ban All Abortion,” you would provide the technical definition of the term “Abortion,” then explain in further detail the focus of your bill.

1. Migration: “migration” is defined by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as reducing emissions and stabilizing the levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Adaptation: “adaptation” is defined by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment for Adapting to the climate change already in the pipeline.

 

Financial Resources: financial resources is the money available for spending in the form of cash, liquid securities and credit lines.

I. Strengths

I. Weaknesses:

2. Tax refunds checks are 8.4 percent less compared to this time last year, thanks to changes ushered in by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. While many individuals could receive less back or even owe the IRS, there are still some who will actually receive bigger checks this year.

1. Strengths:

2. Weaknesses:

 

III. Section Three: Enforcement

The Enforcement Section of a Bill should specify which government agency or organization will be in charge of enforcing this bill.

1. The FDA will be in charge of enforcing this law on the world.

a. Strengths

b. Weaknesses

1. The NRA will oversee any and all applications to get a license to own a gun/carry in the United States, then by the MHA to ensure the user of the firearm is meantly sound before purchase.

a. Strengths:

b. Weaknesses

IV. Section Four: Timeline

The Timeline Section of a Bill should specify WHEN this bill will go into effect. Consider the realities of changing policies and develop a realistic time frame.

1. sometime in the future

1. Strengths

1. Weaknesses

1. This bill shall go into effect by the new fiscal year of 2019 (December 1, 2019)

b. a. Strengths: