POLI2327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: State Ownership, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stephen Johnson Field
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Lecture 15: good essay = take a position on something make it clear, support your argument with evidence. Better essays will show more comprehensive evidence: we will be given a list of all the readings we have had, will anticipate counter-arguments. Shows you know both sides and are still coming down on one side: convey that you have control over the material. Don"t write every fact of the case. Largest group of amendments added of bor since the original 10: civil war amendments were adding to power of congress and. Courts to void state legislation that go against the new amendments. Think of constitution in favor of different regimes: divide constitutional regimes into 3 eras, founding, civil war, new deal, the way woodrow wilson described this: constitution used to be utonian but now it is. Darwinian: meant by utonian it was a static solar system, locked in a particular pattern that is self-balancing.