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,The primary goal of your last assignment is to critically analyze the primary features of the American national government. The results of your analysis will indicate what you have learned over the last five weeks. In order to accomplish this task, it is important to critically evaluate the key facets of our American democracy.
You have been preparing for this final assignment each week by constructing a detailed outline of the Final Paper’s main points through the weekly Learning Activities. In addition, you have read the course text and course readings, reviewed videos, and researched additional material for each week’s assignments and for this paper. This week, you will put all of those outlines, readings, reviews, and research together into a one summative paper.
As we wrap up our course, reflect back on what you have learned about the key structures, systems, roles, and processes that embody our national government. Focus on the strengths and weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages, and positive and negative impacts of these aspects of our democracy. Use what you have learned so far to evaluate our national government and recommend ways to enhance what works and repair what is not working well. It is important to understand that this paper is not simply a cut and paste of your four Learning Activities. While the research you have completed can serve as a strong base it is important that you implement any comments from the instructor, as well as further expand on the material. Appropriate transitions and headings are needed to ensure a cohesive paper.
Construct a six-page paper based on the detailed outlines that you created over the last four weeks. It is important to utilize APA headings major sections of your paper in order to ensure that the paper is easy to follow. A model POL201 Final Paper Guide is provided for you to download and utilize when completing your Final Paper.
Scaffold your paper around the following outline:
- Title page
- Introduction (half page)
- Describe the paper’s overall thesis.
- Provide an overview of main points.
- The Constitution (1 to 1.5 pages) (Week One)
- Describe one strength and one weakness of the U.S. Constitution.
- Recommend one option to maintain the strength and one to correct the weakness.
- Federalism (1 to 1.5 pages) (Week Two)
- Describe one advantage and one disadvantage of a national policy that must be implemented by one agency of the federal bureaucracy.
- Recommend one option to maintain the advantage and one to improve the disadvantage.
- Branches of Government (1 to 1.5 pages) (Week Three)
- Describe one strength and one weakness of one branch of our government: Executive, Legislative, or Judiciary.
- Recommend one option to maintain the strength and one to correct the weakness.
- Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Elections (1-1.5 pages) (Week 4)
- Describe one positive impact and one negative impact of one of the following: political parties, interest groups, or federal elections.
- Recommend one option to accentuate the positive impact and one to lessen the negative impact.
- Conclusion
- Review your main points.
- Review your overall thesis.
- References page
The America’s Democracy: Your Report Card paper
- Must be at least six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
- Must include a separate title page with the following:
- Title of paper
- Student’s name
- Course name and number
- Instructor’s name
- Date submitted
- Must use at least eight scholarly sources in addition to the course text. A minimum of six of the resources must be from peer-reviewed scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library
- The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
- Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
- Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
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Running head: AMERICA’S DEMOCRACY
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America’s Democracy
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Professor
Institution
Course
Date
AMERICA’S DEMOCRACY
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America’s Democracy
Introduction
The United States is a democracy based on the fact the laws governing the state are
agreed upon by the majority votes. Every decision in America has to be made through votes and
where the majority chose a law its implementation will be done without fail. America's
democracy has enabled the nation to remain successful in its activities since policies are
implemented in time and fairly. Through the American government, it has become possible for
laws to be created and through bureaucratic and state agencies, the government has managed to
successfully implement policies.
Describe one strength and one weakness of the U.S. Constitution
Strength of the U.S Constitution
The U.S constitution is amendable when a need arises. This feature of being amendable
makes the U.S Constitution a living constitution since it is adaptable to the dynamic needs of the
American people. The amendable nature of the constitution makes it a self-correcting and selfregulating makes it a timeless constitution since it changes as the needs of the Americans change
over time. This feature is further strengthened by the fact that the amendments are made in the
best interest of the majority as opposed to the minority (Jevtić, 2017). On the same note, the
amendments of the constitution are designed in such a way that requires complex procedures so
as to avoid the approval and ratification of amendments that are ill-conceived.
AMERICA’S DEMOCRACY
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Weakness of the U.S Constitution
One of the weaknesses of the U.S constitution is that it does not have set terms of the law
in regard to the terms that the members of Congress (Senate and House of Representatives) can
serve. In the current situation, the members of the Senate can serve an unlimited number of sixyear terms while the members of the House of Representatives may serve an unlimited number
of two-year terms (Shair‐Rosenfield & T Stoyan, 2017). This makes these members to only do
what is necessary to warrant them a re-election instead of focusing on the real issues that face
America. This means that they do not significantly assist the taxpayers who pay them in any
way.
Recommendation to maintain the strength
The constitution needs to be more flexible so that more amendments should be made in
regarding the changing needs of the American people. This is due to the fact that the world today
is so dynamic and constant changes are needed so as to be at par with the development of the rest
of the world (Jevtić, 2017). Making the constitution more flexible will mean that the constitution
will grow and develop at the same pace as America.
Recommendation to correct the weakness
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