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Midterm essay for Philosophy and Development of American government

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RULES: 1. This essay is graded based upon your understanding of course material. It has nothing to do with what you look up on Wikipedia, what you were taught elsewhere or what “feelings” you have about something. I have a list of things from the course that I will look for in your essay when I grade it. So, search and collect all the relevant course material with which to answer the question. (Note: The “course paper” at the end of the term is the assignment where you can critique, research and bring in other material to form your work product. This paper is only graded upon “how well did you listen and absorb course information.” That is the only criterion). 2. Don’t put a bunch of irrelevant material in the essays and, conversely, don’t be vague about what you provide. Students who do not know the material properly commit two sins: (a) they just write for the purpose of filling space; or (b) they provide a slogan instead of an answer. Show me you know the material intelligently enough to sort out the irrelevant stuff and to provide a detailed and clear accounting of the stuff that is relevant. Much of the answers are like finding eggs during Easter. A piece from this lecture, a piece from that one. Collect the eggs and show them to me. 3. As a general rule, page length should be around 6. But there is no limit either way. ESSAY QUESTION (do all of them): A. Compare and contrast the English system of government after the glorious revolution with American government as it was created in 1787. How are the creations similar and how are they different? Make sure you mention these items: a. government by “social sectors;” b. what is “constitutional” in each system; c. how democratic each system and society was; d. the difference in the powers yielded by the “executive” institution e. how each purported to protect liberty f. how each was affected by the enlightenment g. how American government went further with enlightenment thinking than England h. what American government has to do, philosophically, with the science of engineering B. Compare and contrast the difference between a constitutional and parliamentary system. What are the basic differences between the two? C. Describe how the American system has parliamentary architecture inside its constitutional system. What does that mean and what evidence is there for it? D. Which of the three branches of government in America was thought to be most important or powerful, and why? Mention Hamilton v. De Tocqueville (as to the Judiciary); and Hamiltonians versus Madisonians (as to the other branches).

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