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• HIS 303 Entire Course (Ash)
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• HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 1 English Politics and
  Political Traditions
• HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 2 The Constitutional Convention
  of 1787
• HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 1 Powers of the Federal
  Government
• HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 2 A Symbolic Figurehead
• HIS 303 Week 2 Early Constitutional Controversies
• HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 1 The Constitution and
  Reconstruction
• HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 2 Populists and Progressives

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• HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 1 English Politics and
  Political Traditions (Ash)
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• English Politics and Political TraditionsAmerican
  s often imagine that their political institutions
  and principles are unique and unheralded yet,
  many of them might be traced back to the heritage
  of England at the time the colonies were first
  formed, and over the course of the colonial
  period as English political institutions evolved.
  Identify the ways that English politics and
  political traditions influenced the political and
  legal institutions of colonial America.What
  aspects of the English political heritage did the
  colonists claim for themselves? How did English
  institutions and principles evolve in the
  colonies? How and why had English and American
  conceptions of their shared political heritage
  diverged so sharply by the middle of the 1700s?
  What constitutional disagreements brought about
  the American Revolution?

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• HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 2 The Constitutional Convention
  of 1787 (Ash)
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• The Constitutional Convention of 1787. Americans
  today generally revere the Constitution and
  appeal to it as an impeccable authority on
  current events (even when the Americans in
  question have never closely read the
  Constitution). However, when the Constitution was
  first presented to the American people, many of
  them opposed it and the nation almost did not
  ratify it. Even among the original framers of the
  Constitution (Framers) themselves, some, like
  Benjamin Franklin, thought it was imperfect and a
  few, like George Mason, refused to sign it.
  Identify the events and developments which led to
  the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and explain
  the opposition to the new Constitution.

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• HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 1 Powers of the Federal
  Government (Ash)
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• Powers of the Federal Government. Many Americans
  today believe the federal government has acquired
  too much power, size, and influence in the
  nations domestic affairs. Throughout U.S.
  history, a tension has existed regarding what
  powers the federal government can assume and what
  powers should be left to the states. Review the
  text of the Constitution for evidence about the
  relationship the document establishes between
  national and state governments. Then review the
  history of the United States through the Civil
  War for evidence of how that relationship worked
  in progress, and changed over time.
• What major controversies during this time period
  raised questions about the proper relationship
  between the state and federal governments? How
  did proponents and opponents of state sovereignty
  defend their respective positions? How did the
  question of slavery intermix with the question of
  states rights?

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• HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 2 A Symbolic Figurehead (Ash)
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• DQ 2 A Symbolic Figurehead. Americans tend to pay
  more attention to the president than to any other
  government official, blaming him when things go
  wrong, even in areas over which the president has
  little control, and crediting him with successes
  which stem from the legislature instead of the
  executive. In many ways, the president serves as
  a symbolic figurehead of both the government and
  the nation, with the consequence that the
  executive often overshadows the other branches of
  government. Review the powers and
  responsibilities which the Constitution grants to
  the president. Then explain how presidents from,
  George Washington through Abraham Lincoln, have
  wielded and expanded those powers.

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• HIS 303 Week 2 Early Constitutional Controversies
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• Early Constitutional Controversies. In 1788,
  Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, who had
  both played active roles at the Constitutional
  Convention, worked together to write The
  Federalist Papers, a series of articles
  originally published in New York newspapers to
  convince readers to back the ratification of the
  Constitution. Constitutional scholars often refer
  to these papers to gain an appreciation of the
  original intention of the Framers, how those
  men expected the federal government to operate
  under the Constitution, and the powers they
  sought to grant or deny the federal government.
  By the early 1790s, however, Hamilton and Madison
  had divided over basic constitutional questions,
  such as whether or not the federal government
  could charter a national bank.

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• HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 1 The Constitution and
  Reconstruction (Ash)
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• The Constitution and Reconstruction. A common
  misconception about the end of the Civil War is
  that, after ending slavery, the federal
  government did nothing to assist former slaves.
  In fact, the Constitution itself was
  substantially altered to define the rights of
  Americans and to allow the federal government to
  protect those rights. Review the contents of the
  Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Nineteenth Amendments,
  along with the history of the period from 1865 to
  1933.

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• HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 2 Populists and Progressives
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• Populists and Progressives. According to much
  populist rhetoric since the 1980s, the federal
  government is too active in domestic affairs,
  particularly the economy. Yet, a century earlier,
  the Populists and Progressives a agitated to have
  the federal government intervene more actively in
  domestic affairs. Explain why many Americans
  during this period from 1880 to 1930 favored a
  more activist federal government. Summarize the
  constitutional views of the Populists and
  Progressives, and explain how they differed from
  the conservative views held by the Supreme Court
  and others of the time.

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• HIS 303 Week 3 Supreme Court Decision (Ash)
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• Supreme Court Decision. The judiciary is one of
  the three branches involved in the checks and
  balances associated with the U.S. government
  under the Constitution. It is also the branch
  over which the American people have the least
  direct control, making it particularly
  controversial, especially when it seems to
  controvert the popular will as expressed through
  the legislature. For this assignment, review the
  powers the Constitution grants to the Supreme
  Court in Article III. Then summarize the history
  of, reasoning behind, and the public reaction to
  a momentous U.S.

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• HIS 303 Week 4 DQ 1 The New Deal (Ash)
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• The New Deal. Franklin Roosevelts New Deal
  greatly expanded the federal governments role in
  the countrys domestic and economic affairs,
  which led to a long-running constitutional crisis
  in the 1930s that remains controversial to this
  day. Although the Supreme Court threw out several
  New Deal programs, others survived and laid the
  foundation for later developments over the next
  three decades.

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• HIS 303 Week 4 DQ 2 The Bill of Rights (Ash)
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• The Bill of Rights. After the Preamble, The Bill
  of Rights is probably the most famous section of
  the Constitution, but is often imperfectly
  understood. For instance, the Bill of Rights
  initially served only to limit the actions of the
  federal government, and did not protect citizens
  from the actions of state governments (as
  affirmed in the 1833 Supreme Court case of Barron
  v. Baltimore). Moreover, many rights that
  Americans take for grantedsuch as votingdo not
  appear in the Bill of Rights, and many other
  rights were not fully articulated or protected
  until the mid-twentieth century.

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• HIS 303 Week 5 DQ 1 Conservative
  Constitutionalism (Ash)
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• Conservative Constitutionalism. Historians
  sometimes speak of the Reagan Revolution that
  occurred after Ronald Reagan became president in
  1981. This revolution represented a conservative
  backlash against the liberalism of the first half
  of the twentieth century, and arguably continues
  to set the tone of political debate in the
  country today. Identify the key ideological
  components of the conservative constitutionalism
  associated with the Reagan Era and the Rehnquist
  Court. In practice, how did conservative
  constitutionalism affect American politics and
  the American government? Has the influence of
  conservative constitutionalism increased or
  declined in the decades since Reagan left office?

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• HIS 303 Week 5 DQ 2 Expansion of Executive Power
  (Ash)
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• Expansion of Executive Power. Classical
  republican philosophy warned against the
  expansion of executive power, and throughout U.S.
  history, critics have assailed presidentsfrom
  Washington, to Jackson, to Lincoln, and
  beyondfor allegedly abusing their power in
  tyrannical ways. These fears arguably peaked
  during the Cold War, when foreign policy, a
  matter often delegated to the executive, expanded
  exponentially in importance. By the 1970s, some
  Americans feared that their country was being run
  by, in the words of historian Arthur Schlesinger,
  Jr., an imperial presidency (i.e., a presidency
  which held itself above the rule of law).

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• HIS 303 Week 5 Final Paper (Ash)
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• Final Paper
• From the time the Constitution was ratified,
  Americans have disagreed over its meaning and the
  extent of the powers it gave to different
  branches and reserved to the states and the
  people. Since the Constitution took effect, it
  has been amended several times and, just as
  importantly, interpretations of the Constitution
  have changed over time. For this assignment,
  examine the history of one constitutional issue
  in depth and explain how, and why, understandings
  of, and approaches to, the issue have changed
  over from colonial times through the present.
  Develop an argument about how, in your informed
  opinion, the constitutional issue should be
  interpreted. Justify your position with reference
  to the Constitution itself, the history of the
  issue under consideration, and the stance adopted
  on the issue by significant

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