US government relationships
PROJECT: U.S. GOVERNMENT RELATIONSHIPS
Select one of the following options and write a 1,000-word essay. Incorporate the precise terminology for your topic, and make sure you check punctuation and spelling before submitting your work.
Option 1.
Conflicts over the respective roles of national and state governments have been around since America's beginning. The Civil War was fought over questions of states' rights: Can a state create a law that allows for slavery? Does a state have the right to secede from the Union?
Even today people disagree on how much power the federal government should have; some would like the states to have more power. An area where this debate has made the news in recent years includes:
Illegal Immigration - Is protecting America's border with Mexico mainly a federal or a state issue? What laws - state or federal - have been broken when a person enters the U.S. illegally? What should a state do if the current federal methods aren't wor
Select one of the following options and write a 1,000-word essay. Incorporate the precise terminology for your topic, and make sure you check punctuation and spelling before submitting your work.
Option 1.
Conflicts over the respective roles of national and state governments have been around since America's beginning. The Civil War was fought over questions of states' rights: Can a state create a law that allows for slavery? Does a state have the right to secede from the Union?
Even today people disagree on how much power the federal government should have; some would like the states to have more power. An area where this debate has made the news in recent years includes:
Illegal Immigration - Is protecting America's border with Mexico mainly a federal or a state issue? What laws - state or federal - have been broken when a person enters the U.S. illegally? What should a state do if the current federal methods aren't wor
