Democratizing Twentieth Century Homework - Due - Friday, Oct 30

1 - Read Pioneers at the Polls: Woman Suffrage in the West

2 - Identify the text's central ideas in your notes.

3 - Provide at least one quote to support each central idea.

4 - In your notes, make connections between the text and as many causes of the Women's Suffrage Movement as possible.

5 - In your notes, make connections between this text and one other text. Does this confirm or refute what you read in a different text?

**You should have no less than a page of writing 

Politics and Government - Homework - Due - Fri, Oct 30

Read Dahl 62 - 76

Answer the following questions. Be sure to provide evidence from the text to support your answers.

1 - What is the difference between a presidential system and a parliamentary system?

2 - Why does Dahl suggest the Federalist Papers where propaganda?

3 - Discuss Hamilton's views on the presidency.

4 - What is "separation of powers?"

5 - Discuss the following quote:

"What [the Framers] adopt actually states that: 'Each state shall appoint, in such a manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and representatives to which the State may be entitled in Congress.' Whatever the Framers intend by these words, the offer a huge opportunity for the democratic phase of the American revolution to democratize the presidency."

Why does the phrase "in such a manner as the legislature thereof may direct," offer a chance to democratize the presidency?

6 - How did the Constitutional Convention react to the proposal that the president be popularly elected?

7 - How was president originally selected under the Virginia Plan?

8 - How did Jackson, and later, Lincoln, Cleveland, Roosevelt, Wilson, and FDR transform the presidency? Define: mandate

9 - Why does Dalh refer to the democratization of the presidency as "pseudo-democratization."

10 - How did the British constitutional system change/evolve post-U.S. Constitutional Convention?

11 - What is the difference between a monarch, president, and prime minister?

NO HOMEWORK TONIGHT - POLITICS AND DEMOCRATIZING

(But some of y'all have plenty to make up.... *knocks on table*)

Democratizing Twentieth Century America - Homework - Due - Monday, Oct 26

1 - Read and create a primary source analysis for Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points Speech .

2 - Read Zinn 365 - 373

a) Identify and discuss significance: American Protective League
b) Identify and discuss significance: Minnesota Commission on Public Safety
c) Identify and discuss significance: Green Corn Rebellion
d) Discuss several different tactics used by the Establishment (the government and other powerful interests) to suppress opposition to the war. How do these tactics support Zinn's overall argument that war is the health of the state?
e) Identify and discuss significance: Jeanette Rankin, Kate Richards O'Hare, and Emma Goldman
How do their stances regarding the war compare to Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt's? **Answer  should be at least two paragraphs
f) How did the war provide a chance for the government to shut down the IWW?

Democratizing Twentieth Century America - Homework will be posted tomorrow morning

Politics and Government Homework - Due - Monday, Oct 26

1 - HW: Read Dahl pgs 46 - 62

2 - Answer the following questions:

a) Why do second chambers exist according to Dahl?

b) What is "virtual representation?"

c) Discuss the way representation worked in 19th century Prussia.

d) Discuss Dahl's comparison of Alaska, California, and Nevada. Why does he make this comparison? What is his argument?

e) Which countries exceed the U.S. in degree of unequal representation?

f) Discuss the following question raised by Dahl: Is there a principle of general applicability that justifies an entitlement to extra representation for some individuals or groups? What is Dahl's response to this question?  **You must provide direct evidence with analysis and interpretation.

g) What protections have been established to protect minorities from majorities?

h) How has equal representation in the Senate protected the most privileged minorities? What was the Southern veto?

i) What is the difference between a plurality and a majority?

j) What is the "first-past-the-post" system?

k) Why are third parties rarely represented in such a system?

l) Explain the difference between first-past-the-post and proportional representation.

m) Explain how the "double ballot" system works. How does it compensate for the defects of single member districts.

n) Why was the 1993 nomination for the head of the DOJ Civil Rights Division controversial?

o) What is Duverger's Law?

p) Identify: proportional, majoritarian

Democratizing Twentieth Century - Homework - Due Thursday, Oct 22

Read each of  the following and take notes. Make sure that your notes clearly reflect connections to as many of the causes of the Women's Suffrage Movement as possible.


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_suffrage.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/peopleevents/p_paul.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/peopleevents/p_catt.html

http://www.alicepaul.org/who-was-alice-paul/ (make sure you click all the icons to do the entire reading)

http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/WIC/Historical-Essays/No-Lady/Womens-Rights/