American government

In this term paper you should demonstrate your knowledge on each topic. Use notes from lecture, the text or any reliable source of information to answer each section of the prompt. Your term paper should be a minimum of 10 pages double-spaced. All term papers must be in Times New Roman/Size 12 Font with 1-Inch Margins. Provide a minimum of 8 sources and a bibliography.

Section 1: US Government
Discuss the concept of Checks & Balances and explain how it makes government more democratic. Provide a description of each branch that includes its duties and how it checks the power of other branches. Describe the impact of the media on the political process focusing on its role as a check on power.
Section 2: Federalism

Explain the concept of Federalism. Describe the roles of federal, state, and local government. Compare and Contrast Dual Federalism, Cooperative Federalism, and New Federalism including a description of the leaders and movements associated with these concepts.
Section 3: Civil Rights
Discuss two civil rights found in the Bill of Rights explaining how they have changed over time through court or public interpretation. Explain the Process of Incorporation and the significance of the 14th Amendment to this concept. Provide an example of the Process of Incorporation.
Section 4: Current Events
Provide an example in the news (from the last year) that is relevant to a concept discussed in this paper. Give an explanation of why it relates to the concept. Analyze the source of the news story; focusing on its credibility. Include your own thoughts and opinions on the Current Event.

American Government
POS 111 online Bibliography Quotes Assign S16 Actions for ‘POS 111 online Bibliography Quotes Assign
American Government Bibliography/Quotes/Thesis Assignment
Bibliography
Requirements:
Minimum bibliography required
One author from the list
One peer-reviewed journal article
One Congressional Quarterly Researcher article
One CRS or a Congressional Quarterly Researcher article
Bibliography Page needs to be submitted in Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)
Remember to use rtf file for this assignment and drop the assignment in D2L’s dropbox by the due date
Strategy:
Ideas about the environment
Issues that are directly and indirectly involving the ecology or the environment
Keep in mind that you need a full law, not a bill. These are different documents.
Start collecting sources
HYPERLINK “http://www.ppcc.edu/services/library/databases/” http://www.ppcc.edu/services/library/databases/
jstor and ebsco are journal databases that we can work with and use only advance search while using these data base
Chicago Manual of Style Websites and General information about political science
HYPERLINK “http://libguides.nps.edu/citation/chicagonb” http://libguides.nps.edu/citation/chicagonb
HYPERLINK “http://libguides.radford.edu/chicagostyle” http://libguides.radford.edu/chicagostyle
HYPERLINK “http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/02/” http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/02/
HYPERLINK “http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/03” http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/03
Wikipedia, blogs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, no textbooks, and similar sites are NOT TO BE USED IN COLLEGE PAPERS
Quotes Assignments
The goals:
Help collect information and data from each source
Have information prepared and ready to be used for the paper/writing project
Learn/Know how to do Chicago Manual of Style citations
Know what is relevant and useful for your paper
Identify what is useful and key to the issue
Evaluate information
Develop a strategy for your writing based on facts/information derived from your required and primary sources
Do you need to use all quotes? Can you use more quotes?
No, you might need a few less quotes or a few more quotes.
Some quotes you will use as a paraphrase.
Some quotes might not be useful, as you develop your writing process you might find the need to develop a new idea and you will need quotes to support that section of the writing process that you did not anticipate. Preference for neutral language…I, My, Mine…etc must be avoided.
Minimum requirement for the quotes assignment:
Law quotes: 10 quotes from the federal law (remember you need a law not a bill)
Peer review journal article: 5 quotes from the academic journal article
CQ Researcher article: 5 quotes from the article
CQ Researcher article or the CRS report: 5 quotes from the article or the report
How to …
Setup the assignment:
Have the bibliographic information about the source.
Then provide 2-3 sentences about the source.
Use footnotes
Finally, type the quotes

Move to the next source…
This brief example is fine but not perfect—this source contains mistakes. Can you identify the few mistakes?
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008. As Amended through Public Law 113-128. Sec. 2013-2015. U.S. House of Representatives.
The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 is my main work of study. I am paying particular attention to section 4 and 5, where the establishment of the SNAP program is explained, and the limitations thereof.
Quotes:
“…eligible households within the State shall be provided an opportunity to obtain a more nutritious diet through the issuance to them of an allotment…”
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008. As Amended through Public Law 113-128. Sec. 2013-2015. U.S. House of Representatives.
“The benefits so received by such households shall be used only to purchase food from retail food stores which have been approved for participation in the supplemental nutrition assistance program.”
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.
“In the event of distribution on all or part of an Indian reservation, the appropriate agency of the State government in the area involved shall be responsible for the distribution.”
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.
“The Secretary is authorized to pay such amounts…as the Secretary finds necessary for effective administration of such distribution by a State agency or tribal organization.”
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.
“The Secretary shall establish a fund for use in purchasing traditional and locally-grown foods…”
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008
“Where practicable…at least 50 percent shall be produced by Native American farmers, ranchers, and producers.”
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008
Clemmitt, Marcia, and Peter Katel. “Preventing Obesity.” CQ Researcher 20, no. 34 (October 1, 2010): 799-820. http://library.cqpress.com.libdb.ppcc.edu/cqresearcher/getpdf.php?id=c qresrre2010100100.
This is the first of two of my CQ Researcher Articles. It deals with obesity, and how not having a nutritious diet can be a factor in American obesity today.
Quotes:

“Prominent among those factors are low consumption of fruits and vegetables and America’s “obesogenic” environment, which promotes increased portion size, non-healthful foods and physical inactivity.”
Clemmitt, Marcia, and Peter Katel. “Preventing Obesity.” CQ Researcher 20, no. 34 (October 1, 2010): 799-820.
“While diet programs emphasize personal responsibility, public-health experts blame a multitude of factors — many beyond individuals’ control — for the societywide epidemic.”
Clemmit and Katel.
“The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that health care spending for all adults increased substantially over the last two decades, but that the growth rate was far faster among the obese.”
Clemmit and Katel.
This bibliography is good, but it is not perfect.
Bibliography
Dahl, Richard. “Allergen Labeling Takes Effect.” Environmental Health Perspectives 114, no. 1 (January 2006): A 24. Food Science Source, EBSCOhost (accessed February 16, 2015).
“Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-282, Title II).” U.S. Food and Drug Administration. August 2, 2004. http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/Allergens/ucm106187.htm (accessed February 15, 2015).
“Food Labeling: Allergy Information.” Congressional Research Service, 2007. http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp01-content/uploads/assets/crs/RS20975.pdf (accessed February 15, 2015).
Fortin, Neal D., “The Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act: The Requirements Enacted, Challenges Presented, and Strategies Fathomed.” Journal of Medicine and Law, Vol. 10, p. 126, Spring 2006; MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-13. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=948727
Gendel, Steven M., and Zhu Jianmei. “Analysis of U.S. Food and Drug Administration Food Allergen Recalls after Implementation of the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act.” Journal Of Food Protection 76, no. 11 (November 2013): 1933-1938. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed February 15, 2015).
Grossman, Margaret Rosso. “FDA: Labels for Gluten-Free Food.” European Food & Feed Law Review 9, no. 5 (October 2014): 332-334. Food Science Source, EBSCOhost (accessed February 15, 2015).
Hosansky, David. “Biotech Foods.” CQ Researcher 11, no. 12 (March 30, 2001): 249-72. http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2001033000.

Wilson, Robert H. 2004. “Restaurants and Food Allergies: A Dangerous Recipe.” Journal Of Foodservice Business Research 7, no. 3: 17-33. Food Science Source, EBSCOhost (accessed February 15, 2015).
THESIS
A thesis statement is strongly encouraged to be present in this assignment. Example of a nice thesis:
Federal Law: Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004
Thesis: Although the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 (FALCPA) was successful in requiring and regulating the labeling of consumer products, for the further safety of the general public, any restaurant that holds a food handler’s permit should be required by law to list the allergen information as outlined in the FALCPA.

American Government
POS 111 online Bibliography Quotes Assign S16 Actions for ‘POS 111 online Bibliography Quotes Assign
American Government Bibliography/Quotes/Thesis Assignment
Bibliography
Requirements:
Minimum bibliography required
One author from the list
One peer-reviewed journal article
One Congressional Quarterly Researcher article
One CRS or a Congressional Quarterly Researcher article
Bibliography Page needs to be submitted in Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)
Remember to use rtf file for this assignment and drop the assignment in D2L’s dropbox by the due date
Strategy:
Ideas about the environment
Issues that are directly and indirectly involving the ecology or the environment
Keep in mind that you need a full law, not a bill. These are different documents.
Start collecting sources
HYPERLINK “http://www.ppcc.edu/services/library/databases/” http://www.ppcc.edu/services/library/databases/
jstor and ebsco are journal databases that we can work with and use only advance search while using these data base
Chicago Manual of Style Websites and General information about political science
HYPERLINK “http://libguides.nps.edu/citation/chicagonb” http://libguides.nps.edu/citation/chicagonb
HYPERLINK “http://libguides.radford.edu/chicagostyle” http://libguides.radford.edu/chicagostyle
HYPERLINK “http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/02/” http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/02/
HYPERLINK “http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/03” http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/03
Wikipedia, blogs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, no textbooks, and similar sites are NOT TO BE USED IN COLLEGE PAPERS
Quotes Assignments
The goals:
Help collect information and data from each source
Have information prepared and ready to be used for the paper/writing project
Learn/Know how to do Chicago Manual of Style citations
Know what is relevant and useful for your paper
Identify what is useful and key to the issue
Evaluate information
Develop a strategy for your writing based on facts/information derived from your required and primary sources
Do you need to use all quotes? Can you use more quotes?
No, you might need a few less quotes or a few more quotes.
Some quotes you will use as a paraphrase.
Some quotes might not be useful, as you develop your writing process you might find the need to develop a new idea and you will need quotes to support that section of the writing process that you did not anticipate. Preference for neutral language…I, My, Mine…etc must be avoided.
Minimum requirement for the quotes assignment:
Law quotes: 10 quotes from the federal law (remember you need a law not a bill)
Peer review journal article: 5 quotes from the academic journal article
CQ Researcher article: 5 quotes from the article
CQ Researcher article or the CRS report: 5 quotes from the article or the report
How to …
Setup the assignment:
Have the bibliographic information about the source.
Then provide 2-3 sentences about the source.
Use footnotes
Finally, type the quotes

Move to the next source…
This brief example is fine but not perfect—this source contains mistakes. Can you identify the few mistakes?
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008. As Amended through Public Law 113-128. Sec. 2013-2015. U.S. House of Representatives.
The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 is my main work of study. I am paying particular attention to section 4 and 5, where the establishment of the SNAP program is explained, and the limitations thereof.
Quotes:
“…eligible households within the State shall be provided an opportunity to obtain a more nutritious diet through the issuance to them of an allotment…”
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008. As Amended through Public Law 113-128. Sec. 2013-2015. U.S. House of Representatives.
“The benefits so received by such households shall be used only to purchase food from retail food stores which have been approved for participation in the supplemental nutrition assistance program.”
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.
“In the event of distribution on all or part of an Indian reservation, the appropriate agency of the State government in the area involved shall be responsible for the distribution.”
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.
“The Secretary is authorized to pay such amounts…as the Secretary finds necessary for effective administration of such distribution by a State agency or tribal organization.”
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.
“The Secretary shall establish a fund for use in purchasing traditional and locally-grown foods…”
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008
“Where practicable…at least 50 percent shall be produced by Native American farmers, ranchers, and producers.”
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008
Clemmitt, Marcia, and Peter Katel. “Preventing Obesity.” CQ Researcher 20, no. 34 (October 1, 2010): 799-820. http://library.cqpress.com.libdb.ppcc.edu/cqresearcher/getpdf.php?id=c qresrre2010100100.
This is the first of two of my CQ Researcher Articles. It deals with obesity, and how not having a nutritious diet can be a factor in American obesity today.
Quotes:

“Prominent among those factors are low consumption of fruits and vegetables and America’s “obesogenic” environment, which promotes increased portion size, non-healthful foods and physical inactivity.”
Clemmitt, Marcia, and Peter Katel. “Preventing Obesity.” CQ Researcher 20, no. 34 (October 1, 2010): 799-820.
“While diet programs emphasize personal responsibility, public-health experts blame a multitude of factors — many beyond individuals’ control — for the societywide epidemic.”
Clemmit and Katel.
“The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that health care spending for all adults increased substantially over the last two decades, but that the growth rate was far faster among the obese.”
Clemmit and Katel.
This bibliography is good, but it is not perfect.
Bibliography
Dahl, Richard. “Allergen Labeling Takes Effect.” Environmental Health Perspectives 114, no. 1 (January 2006): A 24. Food Science Source, EBSCOhost (accessed February 16, 2015).
“Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-282, Title II).” U.S. Food and Drug Administration. August 2, 2004. http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/Allergens/ucm106187.htm (accessed February 15, 2015).
“Food Labeling: Allergy Information.” Congressional Research Service, 2007. http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/crs/RS20975.pdf (accessed February 15, 2015).
Fortin, Neal D., “The Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act: The Requirements Enacted, Challenges Presented, and Strategies Fathomed.” Journal of Medicine and Law, Vol. 10, p. 126, Spring 2006; MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-13. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=948727
Gendel, Steven M., and Zhu Jianmei. “Analysis of U.S. Food and Drug Administration Food Allergen Recalls after Implementation of the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act.” Journal Of Food Protection 76, no. 11 (November 2013): 1933-1938. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed February 15, 2015).
Grossman, Margaret Rosso. “FDA: Labels for Gluten-Free Food.” European Food & Feed Law Review 9, no. 5 (October 2014): 332-334. Food Science Source, EBSCOhost (accessed February 15, 2015).
Hosansky, David. “Biotech Foods.” CQ Researcher 11, no. 12 (March 30, 2001): 249-72. http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2001033000.

Wilson, Robert H. 2004. “Restaurants and Food Allergies: A Dangerous Recipe.” Journal Of Foodservice Business Research 7, no. 3: 17-33. Food Science Source, EBSCOhost (accessed February 15, 2015).
THESIS
A thesis statement is strongly encouraged to be present in this assignment. Example of a nice thesis:
Federal Law: Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004
Thesis: Although the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 (FALCPA) was successful in requiring and regulating the labeling of consumer products, for the further safety of the general public, any restaurant that holds a food handler’s permit should be required by law to list the allergen information as outlined in the FALCPA.