Extra Credit Opportunity - Politics/Democratizing

Politics and Government - Read the following articles.  Summarize, analyze, compare, and contrast, and connect to the concepts covered in unit 1. Email to me by 6 pm on Sunday.  Your writing should be sophisticated, make a claim, include evidence, and indicate proofreading.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-30/obama-s-radical-adherence-to-the-constitution.html

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/01/29/presidential-power-vs-congressional-inertia/president-obamas-desire-to-wield-executive-power-is-understandable

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/us/politics/executive-order-may-be-only-option-but-it-comes-with-limits.html?_r=0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/01/31/obamas-love-affair-with-executive-orders-or-not-in-1-chart/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimpowell/2014/01/30/how-president-obama-could-be-swept-away-with-his-executive-orders-that-defy-congress-and-the-courts/


Democratizing - Read the following articles.  Summarize, analyze, compare, and contrast, and connect to the concepts covered in unit 3. Email to me by 6 pm on Sunday.  Your writing should be sophisticated, make a claim, include evidence, and indicate proofreading.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303448204579340563460729046

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ill-labor-unions-sue-plan-cut-pensions-22266339

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/10363430/outside-lines-northwestern-wildcats-football-players-trying-join-labor-union

http://www.delcotimes.com/government-and-politics/20140128/labor-unions-pack-pa-capitol-over-paycheck-bill