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Each student shall complete one of the given options below in a 5 paragraph response to a given claim or statement. Please state the sentence is correct, partially correct, or completely incorrect. State further why this is so by using the Greenberg Page text and framework plus lecture material. {worth 5 points}
1.Evaluate the following claim by using the Greenberg Page framework: A representative democracy is more preferable to a direct democracy in a country the size of the United States according to our founding fathers.
2.Test the following statement: The founding fathers threw out the Articles of Confederation because its uni-cameral legislature could not properly support social order, private property rights, and civil liberties of our citizens. Does Greenberg agree or disagree? Why??
3.Test the statement by usage of the Greenberg framework: The Shays’ rebellion revealed the true strength of the American revolutionary ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of economic equality.
4 Evaluate: The founding fathers defended slavery in 1787 due to the fact that major delegates to the convention were slave holders or concerned for maintaining unity of the new and fragile republic.
5) Examine the statement: The New Jersey plan revealed the inherent weaknesses of the Virginia plan in that the bi-cameral congress would blatantly benefit the most populous states and hurt the smallest states.
6) Test: The anti-federalists used the bill of rights to critique the Federalists argument that the original United States Constitution was itself a protection of the citizen’s liberty.
7) Examine Stephen Breyer’s argument: The founding fathers created a constitution based upon the ideal of ancient lliberty. They based the republic upon the ultimate source of authority…people power! Do you agree or not? Why??
8) Is Hobbes correct that without government,...
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