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Reflective Writing: Texas Legislative Branch, Redistricting, Campaigns and Elections under
Federalism
Requirements and Completion Instructions
When completing your essay, you must provide in-text citations for any work that is directly
quoted or paraphrased. However, you do not need to put the direct citation next to each piece of
information that you include in your chart. A bibliographic citations on your bibliography will
suffice. When writing your essay, respond to the prompt thoroughly, and completely.
Your response should be your own thoughts and analysis. Citations may be formatted in APA,
MLA or Chicago style, as long as they are consistent throughout. Research and resources
should be incorporated with scholarly application. I.e. used as examples or evidence to support
your analysis. Make sure to use complete sentences, and proper grammar. Your response to the
prompt should focus on analyzing the information you gather and use to complete the
constitutional chart through application. Incorporate the information you gathered by using it to
provide examples and support for your response to the prompt.
Your analysis and essay must be at least 2 pages, in length. This does not include the
bibliography. The bibliography should be incorporated, on a separate page, unless you are using
Footnotes. You will upload your essay, and bibliography together, as a single file, to the
designated link, in Eagle Online. File submissions accepted include .pdf, .doc, .dpcx files. Any
other files, submitted, such as pages etc. will not be reviewed, and will automatically receive a
grade of a zero, without re-submission.
My expectations of a complete assignment are that information is organized clearly and in detail
with specific examples. Quality is preferred to quantity.
Prompt:
Copy and paste the link below, to access and stream the movie The Big Buy: How Tom Delay
Stole Congress, free online. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6rzv
(http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6rzv)
Choose from one of the prompts below, to respond to
1. Thinking about federalism and the how power is distributed between multiple levels of
government, including the federal and state level, identify current federal and Texas laws that
regulate elections, such as those that provide for determining electoral processes, eligibility to
participate in an election, selection methods, winning requirements, candidate qualifications,
determining when and where election is held. Discuss inconsistencies and provide some
possible examples to explain the potential effects these could have on electoral outcomes, of
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who is deemed winner, and ultimately achieving democratic representation of the appropriate
people (constituents) who will be electorally linked and impacted by the winner of a political
office.
2. In your own opinion, is re-redistricting, before the decennial census, a crime, based on
statutory and constitutional law? Or, given the nature and number of state level elections,
across a wide geography made up of an extremely demographically heterogenous
population, make it democratically necessary that re-mapping between census’s be a
reserved power of the states, in order to maximize representative democracy. How could the
remapping of Texas be applied to example and explain the state's Don't Mess With Texas,
age old attitude, and individualistic political culture.
3. How could you defend an argument that re-redistricting was not illegal, and how could you
defend the argument that re-redistricting violated the Voting Rights Act. Despite, the Texas
remapping controversy, should the federal judicial system be involved, in what Justice Felix
Frankfurter called the "political thicket" of partisan redistricting? Especially, since the power
to redistrict is a power reserved to for the state, and its people. If political gerrymandering is a
problem, should its resolve be left to the voters, state by state, and jurisdiction by jurisdiction,
or to the federal government (i.e. oversight, regulation, intervention, law...what do you think).
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Instructions
No special instructions.
Start Date
28 Mar 2019 00:22 CDT
Due Date
31 Mar 2019 23:59 CDT
Feedback Release Date
31 Mar 2019 23:59 CDT
Max Points
100
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