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Short Essays: Please concisely answer five out of the following ten options below. Use 2 paragraphs per essay.

1. What are two problems of the Great Compromise according to the anti-federalists

2. How does authority differ from power according to lecture?

3. What connection (if any) did the Shays Rebellion have to the elimination of the Articles of Confederation in 1786-1787?

4. Why do we need government anyways according to Hobbes, Locke and the founders? Explain briefly.

5. What are the essential differences between minor and major parties?

6. Does public opinion matter to the parties?

7. Why are certain social movements successful? What do they do right??

8. How does an interest group impact the campaign and election of 2016?

9. Explain the Obama coalition and how other candidates can benefit from the social groups that voted for his candidacy and campaign in 2008 and 2012?

10. How does a primary differ from a general election in 2016? Use examples and explain.


Long Essay Section: Time to fully explain your take or point of view on two of the following essay options.

1. Are parties a problem or a solution to democratic governance? Explain.

2.Why would the founding fathers want to replace the Articles of Confederation with a federal republic? Why would this not lead to tyranny??

3. Which theory best explains the outcomes of 2012 and 2016?

4. Evaluate why Obama won re-election according to the Gateways chapters 6-10 of our author and the Choice 2016 video as pbs.org.

5. The Trump election of 2016 is the most recent electoral realignment. Examine this claim.

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Short essays and long essays
Short essays
The Great Compromise and the anti-federalists (question 1)
Paragraph 1: The great compromise involved combination of the Virginia and New Jersey’s
plans.
Paragraph 2: The anti-federalist did not support the constitution because it had two problems,
one is that it did not protect the individual rights and it also threatened liberties.
Shays Rebellion and the Articles of Confederation in 1786-1787 (Question 3)
Paragraph 3: The major principle in the Articles of Confederation was that the national
government should not be more powerful than the governments of states.
Paragraph 4: Therefore, the Shays Rebellion was as a result of the loopholes of governance
created by the Articles of Confederation between 1786 to 1787. (David S Kidder 79)
Differences between minor and major parties (question 5)
Paragraph 5: In the United States of America, a major party is any party that is required by law to
file its rules to both the State central committee and to the state Secretary while minor party is

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one which is required by law to submit its rules both to the state secretary and to the town clerk
of the concerned municipal.
Paragraph 6: Moreover, a major party is one whose gubernatorial candidate got more than twenty
percent of the total vote cast in the previous regular election.
Public opinion and parties (question 6)
Paragraph 7: Public opinion is the collective perception of many people to issues related to
politics and government.
Paragraph 8: In a democratic country, public opinion is the perception held by the majority on
matters of the public.
Primary and general election in 2016 (question 10)
Paragraph 9: In the united states of America, two types of elections take place during an election
year.
Paragraph 10: Secondly, general election is the main election in the united states of America.
Long essays
Parties as problem or a solution to democratic governance. (question 1)
Paragraph 11: Political parties can be said to be vehicles for organizing political competition,
political representation and democratic accountability.
Paragraph 12: First, political parties ensure democracy and development through positively
criticizing the government.

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Paragraph 13: However, assistances of political parties can at times create room for
manipulation.
Electoral realignment during Trump election of 2016 (question 5)
Paragraph 14: The changes that happened can lead to a realignment and restructuring of major
political parties in America for generations. There is a possibility that the 2016 is a repeat of the
1928 election.
Paragraph 15: There are several reasons for the kind of realignment taking places presently.
Paragraph 16: Furthermore, in 2012 the republ...


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