SHORT PAPER ASSIGNMENTHIUS 313 - THE AMERICAN FOUNDINGTopic: Short Paper: Faith of our Founders AssignmentMODULE/WEEK 4 -- America’s Christian FoundingOverviewThis assignment will allow you to research and better understand the American Founding Fathers’ faith. The purpose of the assignment is to enhance the historian’s understanding of the early American founding era by investigating primary and secondary source evidence related to this subject of faith of the founders and its role in the planning, design, and formation of America.InstructionsYou will write a 2-page short research paper on a founding father of your choice and evaluate that individual’s faith. The paper must use at least three scholarly sources (1 primary and 2 secondary) and apply current Turabian formatting. The paper must be a full 2 pages but must not exceed 2 ¼ pages with footnotes applied. So be concise in your writing and verify proper citations, including the use of footnote Ibid. and shortened versions.Overall, you must: Identify the selected founding father.Provide a very brief historical narrative explaining their part in the founding era. Explain the faith of the individual as revealed from your research.Provide sufficient evidence for your explanation of their faith.Your paper’s body must include an identifiable introduction with a well-crafted thesis statement and a summative conclusion. The title page and bibliography do not count toward the 2-2 ¼ page requirement. No headings should be used (except on the Bibliography page). Also, the paper must be written in the third person. You should utilize the template from the LU Online Writing Center – Writing Style Guide website and reference the sample paper instructions and information.

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/x6rzvChoose from one of the prompts below, to respond toThinking 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 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.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.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).