All exams must be typed (word processed) and double-spaced with 1-1.25” borders. Each answer should take no more than 3-4 pages (approximately 750-1000 words). Readings must be referenced (through paraphrasing and direct quotes) to support your argument. An informal, within text, citation style (Young, p.106) will suffice.* If it comes from class lecture there is no need for citation unless I directly referenced a reading.
Answer only two of the following three questions. Turn each essay in separately into the proper TurnItIn box (1 for question 1, 2 for question 2, 3 for question 3)
1. Concentrating on the final Constitutional plan for the U.S. Senate, how did that final document accommodate both Federalist and anti-Federalist viewp01oints? Make sure, as part of your explanation, to detail both sets of views about the nature of representation and the importance of a psychologically distant Senate that was to be considered a “higher order” body than the House.
2. The Constitutional Framers envisioned a national government that, like Plato’s cave, would be “at a distance and out of sight” of the everyday affairs and thoughts of ordinary Americans. The end result, it was anticipated, would be a new form of “national” and “long term” thinking by men of prominence, motivated only by their devotion to a national public interest and legacy. How well was this vision carried out in the actual, early Washington Community? If it wasn’t, why not?
3. Edward Larson wrote about the presidential election of 1800 in a book titled “The Magnificent Catastrophe.” How did that “catastrophe” help to usher in a period of party governance in the United States? What were the other preconditions for reform that occurred after 1800 to finalize the transition between the pre-party and partisan eras, including the rise of a more democratic political culture, territorial expansion, and generational replacement?
*Use the University Reader page numbers or pages from external essays. DO NOT cite as (“Galderisi text, p.106” but, rather, cite the author of the essay, and the page in the reader). You do not need to use any other sources, but, if you do (say, relevant material from another class), please give us a full citation at the end of each essay– either MLS or APA style are fine. Note that almost all if not all of the material must be from this class.