Thanksgiving Eve

There will be no class meeting on Wednesday, November 23rd. Instead, please write two paragraphs on either (a) the Watergate scandal or (b) Nixon's Southern strategy, and bring them to class on Monday, November 28th. You should be able to find ample information on the Internet on both topics.

In addition, please use your blog to post suggestions for questions for the final exam. The format will be the same as for the midterm exam. We will discuss them on Monday along with your Nixon material.

Next Wednesday, November 30th, we will be back on schedule with a discussion of Chapter 29.

Have a very happy Thanksgiving break!

Factions Revisited

fac·tion¹

ˈfakSH(ə)n/

noun

1. a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics.

Madison: "By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."

For our final writing assignment, I would like you to revise your analysis essay on the Federalist Paper #10 and add a research component to it. Explore the constitution of a modern government of your choice, and show and explain how it explicitly or implicitly deals with Monroe's problem of factions. The final paper should again follow MLA format and be approximately 2000 words. It is due in Turnitin.com on Monday, November 14th, by 11:59p.m.