Political science

How (un)popular is President Trump? FiveThirtyEight aggregates and weights presidential approval polls into an average measure that is constantly updated. Within this interactive feature, you can learn more about individual polls and the weighting choices. Answer the following questions: How does FiveThirtyEight rank the reliability of the polls? How do Trump’s approval ratings today compare to this time last year What might explain the change? How does Trump’s approval compare with other presidents? Is his approval rating pretty much the same as other presidents or much different? You may want to compare Trump’s approval with specific presidents or use a general comparison. Explain WHY his approval is similar or different.

Your substantive post must do three things: Answer one of the discussion questions listed below in the format provided, Be at least 225-300 words long, Cites the relevant texts at least twice, using direction quotes. Questions (pick one!): State of Nature. Discuss the main assumptions and premises of the state of nature argument as found in the works of John Locke and Sam Addams. Be sure to state clearly the assumption or premise you are discussing, use philosophy language to evaluate it’s strength, and try to conceive of one objection to it’s acceptability. Empirical Evaluation. Brainstorm types of empirical evidence we could try to find that would help establish the acceptability of one premise or assumption in classical liberal arguments. Be sure to clearly state the assumption or premise you are looking at, and the words of the author you found it in (Locke, Addams, Wise). Could we come up with scientific tests to try to gather this information, if so, how? Historical Connection. Demonstrate how Samuel Addams is drawing from John Locke’s, using direct quotations from at least two of these authors. Be sure to clearly state what part of John Locke’s argument Addams is using. In what ways are they mostly borrowing from Locke, and in what ways are they actually helping to create a more complete notion of the state of nature than Locke provides?   Cut and paste the following format into your response: Question name: (State of Nature, Empirical Evaluation, Historical Connection).  Premise:  (Here first use your own words to describe an assumption or premise in the state of nature argument you are discussing, and provide appropriate direct citations from the course readings that demonstrate the it’s presence state of nature arguments).  Answer: (Here use the tools of informal logic and textual analysis to answer the question

Write a 5-7-page, double-spaced paper in which you address the following:a)Do we need lots of government in order to have the strongest democracyor does “big” government interfere with our democratic ideals? b)Why do you think this is so? c)How do we compare to the global stage

Research the background of your Congressional representatives based on your address  – two senators and a member of the House of Representatives. Find out about their previous occupation(s), political experience, family, income, education, and other relevant demographics. What percentage of the vote did they receive to win in their last election? What are two policy issues areas they are interested in? How do these areas reflect their ideologies? Write an essay. Start by identifying all three of your representatives. Then, pick the representative you are most interested in and explain why they interest you. Present the information you found in your research required above in the essay. Here is a link to research the congressional representatives.  I leave in Georgia. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members (Links to an external site.)

Provide an editorial analysis of the following NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE      https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/us/census-undocumented-trump.html 1. Summarize the article and give your educated insight to it?  2. Write 5-7 sentences with APA formatting?  3. Add the link of the news article to the document?   Federal Court Rejects Trump’s Order to Exclude Undocumented From Census A three-judge panel unanimously said President Trump lacks the authority to remove noncitizens from census counts used to allot House seats. A census site in Greenville, Texas. States with large immigrant populations like Texas, California, Florida would have lost congressional representation under President Trump’s order.  Otero/Associated Press By Michael Wines Sept. 10, 2020 Updated 7:59 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — A federal court on Thursday rejected President Trump’s order to exclude unauthorized immigrants from population counts that will be used next year to reallocate seats in the House of Representatives, ruling that it was so obviously illegal that a lawsuit challenging the order need not go to a trial. The court, a three-judge panel in Federal District Court in Manhattan, said Mr. Trump’s proposal exceeded his authority under federal law governing the census. The panel said there was no need to consider a second claim in the lawsuit that the president’s order violated the Constitution’s requirement to base apportionment of the House on “the whole number of persons in each state.” “The merits of the parties’ dispute are not particularly close or complicated,” the judges wrote in granting summary judgment to the plaintiffs, a view that was broadly shared by legal scholars. Two of the judges, Richard C. Wesley and Peter W. Hall, were named to the bench by President George W. Bush. The third, Jesse M. Furman, was nominated by President Barack Obama. The case involved lawsuits brought by two sets of plaintiffs, one a group of state and local governments and the United States Conference of Mayors, and the second a coalition of advocacy groups and other nongovernmental organizations. The groups argued that Mr. Trump’s order would cause some of them to lose representation in the House and would damage all of them by leading to a less accurate census. Since the first census was taken in 1790, the number of seats each state holds in the House of Representatives has been based on counts of everyone living in the United States regardless of citizenship or legal status, except for slaves during roughly the nation’s first 90 years. Mr. Trump tried to scrap that process in July, telling the Commerce Department in a memorandum that the Census Bureau should produce two population counts — one the same as those taken every decade, and the other an estimate of the number of unauthorized immigrants living in each state. Subtracting the immigrant population from census totals would have excluded millions of people from the population counts used for reapportionment, reducing the number of House seats allotted to states with large immigrant populations like California, Texas and Florida. Those seats would have been redistributed to states with few unauthorized immigrants — in particular Alabama, which is projected to lose a House seat next year. A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 11, 2020, Section A, Page 17 of the New York edition with the headline: Court Halts Trump’s Order to Exclude Undocumented Immigrants From Census. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

Give as complete an answer as you can.  You have at your disposal any resources you chose to utilize.  There is no word or paragraph limit.  One or two line answers will be clearly inadequate.  Feel free to express your responses in any manner that you deem appropriate.  Lists with explanations, diagrams, charts, or straight essay are all acceptable.  Key, demonstrate that you understand the applicable concepts. 1.      Discuss the evolution and limits to the power of the Federal Government as it developed under the Court’s interpretation of the Commerce Clause.  2.    Explain how a bill becomes a law addressing steps, referral to the various committees and the role of each committee. At each step in the process demonstrate your knowledge of how it works (functions of subcommittees, staff etc).  3.    We discussed several concepts that Courts use to insure that they have before them a concrete set of fact that sharply define factual and legal issues, in other words, a case and controversy.  List at least three of those factors and explain what they mean. 4.      Describe the various paths to get to the U.S. Supreme Court, from the beginning of a case to acceptance by the Supremes, stating what is occurring at each level.  Address burden of proof and what types of cases are heard at each level. 5.    Explain the political background, the facts, and the court’s reasoning in Marbury v. Madison.  Identify the real power struggle and why it is important to the nation today. Minimum:  do not stop with Judicial Review, address “rule of  law”, separation of powers, judicial independence, judicial sovereignty, AND judicial review. 6.      We have discussed the fact that the framers of the Constitution did not favor or wish to adopt a true democracy.  What is it that they did create and why?  What limited them in their choices, what compromises were necessary to achieve the Constitution.  Address all parts to the questions, social & political factors influenced what could be created. 7.      Identify and explain (show you understand) as many undemocratic features of our constitutionally instituted government as you can. 8.      List and explain as many of the specific usages of the concept of “jurisdiction”. 9.      There are a number of Supreme Court decisions addressed in your text and during lecture related to the executive power to manage foreign affairs, what are they and how have they affected executive power. 10.    Explain the source of and extent of the power of the bureaucracy, what limits, if any?

As we move from colonization to independent African states in this class, what were some of the major challenges that these states faced as they transitioned into new political systems? Give two separate examples of challenges, using the class materials (lecture, readings) and what you have learned so far in the class. You do not need to give country examples at this point, but may do so if you wish.

TOPIC: On September 1 (2020), President Trump announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), following through on his August 8-Executive Order, will halt all residential evictions until the end of the year, to try to reduce the spread of COVID-19. In FOUR pages, please discuss (1) What is this CDC action on the President’s Executive Order all about? (2) Protagonists – Who argues in support of the President’s E.O./CDC’s policy to halt evictions, and what are their arguments that this is good policy that will help Americans? (3) Antagonists – Who argues against the President’s E.O./CDC’s policy, and what are their arguments that this is bad policy and will not help, or even hurt Americans? (4) Where do you stand regarding the President’s E.O./CDC’s policy, and why?

Write a paper on a current event article that discusses restrictions on freedoms by a totalitarian state or an article on ethnic conflict within a nation.  Summarize the article and explain why this issue is important to the global community.  What outside influences might help change this issue?  How?  Is the article neutral? Why or why not? Be sure to include a scanned copy of the article in your submission in addition to citations.  Articles may not be more then one   month old. 3 full pages (not including title or reference page) 1 inch margins double spaced 12 point times new roman font title and reference page required scan copy of article required

For this entry, you need to read, “A deeper dive into ‘Should the US be considered a democracy?” which I wrote after reading your responses to the original discussion. Next, I want you to carefully consider the KEY evidence provided by the narrator (i.e., the study by GIllens and Page) and respond to the following two-part question: First, in your opinion, is the evidence presented by the narrator sufficient to support the argument that the US is not a democracy, but is, instead, an oligarchy? Second, whether you think the evidence is sufficient or not, do you think the narrator’s conclusion that our votes are, therefore, meaningless is warranted? On this second question, I want you to adopt a critical view. This doesn’t mean that you must disagree with the narrator; rather it means, I don’t want you to automatically accept his conclusion. Think carefully about the logic of his argument. Make sure your response clearly reflects the points made in the video and in my follow up analysis.