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1. The authors of the text argue that "the framers sought to create a new government capable of promoting commerce and protecting property from radical state legislatures and populist forces hostile to the interests of the commercial and propertied classes" (Ginsberg et. al. 2019: 41).
In your initial post, please give two examples of specific powers the Constitution gives to the national government and two ways in which the framers limited the national government's power under the Constitution. Discuss why the framers granted the two powers that you identify to the national government and why the framers placed such limits on the government they had just created?
In your response posts, review the powers and/or the limits proposed by two of your classmates and assess how successful you believe the Constitutional language has been in empowering and/or limiting the federal government.
2. The authors of the text argue that "the framers sought to create a new government capable of promoting commerce and protecting property from radical state legislatures and populist forces hostile to the interests of the commercial and propertied classes" (Ginsberg et. al. 2019: 41).
In your initial post, please give two examples of specific powers the Constitution gives to the national government and two ways in which the framers limited the national government's power under the Constitution. Discuss why the framers granted the two powers that you identify to the national government and why the framers placed such limits on the government they had just created?
In your response posts, review the powers and/or the limits proposed by two of your classmates and assess how successful you believe the Constitutional language has been in empowering and/or limiting the federal government.
3. Participation in civic life and turnout in elections is not the same across demographic groups in U.S.society It varies by age, race, gender, income, and a variety of other characteristics. How serious a problem is this for U.S. society?
Present some evidence from the readings or lectures to explain why you say this? Based on your assessment of how serious a problem this phenomenon is to democratic governance, what steps should be taken by government and by private organizations to enhance civic participation and voting?
4. Participation in civic life and turnout in elections is not the same across demographic groups in U.S.society It varies by age, race, gender, income, and a variety of other characteristics. How serious a problem is this for U.S. society?
Present some evidence from the readings or lectures to explain why you say this? Based on your assessment of how serious a problem this phenomenon is to democratic governance, what steps should be taken by government and by private organizations to enhance civic participation and voting?
5. Suppose the federal courts did not assert the power of judicial review established in the case of Marbury v. Madison (1803). Without judicial review, all laws passed by Congress and signed into law by the president would be considered constitutional.
How would this change the American political system? At a minimum, it would add to a note of efficiency to the Madisonian system. Would you favor such a change? Would Madison? Why or why not?
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