• Chapter 1• In your own words explain what

the textbook means when it states that politics exists in part because people differ about two things: who should govern, and the ends toward which they should work

•Explain the four answer that have traditionally been given to the question of who governs.

•Marxist•Elitist•Bureaucratic•Pluralist

•Explain what is meant by power, and by political power in particular. Relate the latter to authority, legitimacy, and democracy

•Explain how political change tends to make political scientists cautious in stating how politics works or what values dominate it.

•What is the difference between the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan?

•Explain how the Great Compromise utilized both the Virginia and New Jersey Plan.

•Explain the notion of "higher law" by which the colonists felt they were entitled to certain "natural rights." List these rights.

• Compare the basis on which the colonists felt a government could be legitimate with the basis of legitimacy then assumed in monarchies.

• Pages 27-29• Why did the framers of

the constitution choose to create a republic instead of a pure democracy?

• Why did the framers choose to have the president chosen under the electoral college?

• Discuss the evidence that the framers of the Constitution meant for popular rule to be only one element of the new government. In what ways did the new government limit the power of majorities?

•What is the New Jersey Plan – be detailed in your answer

•What is the Virginia Plan – be detailed in your answer

•Explain, in detail, what the Great Compromise did.

•Pages 25-27

•Define: sovereignty, unitary system, confederation or confederal system, federal system, and federal regime

•Chapter 3

•What is the difference between a federal and a unitary system of government?

• Pages 54-56• What was Chief John

Marshall’s decision in McCulloch v. Maryland and how did Marshall’s decision reflect Hamilton’s view of federalism over Jefferson’s?

• Intro, body, and conclusion• Due at end of class

•Why was the 10th Amendment added to the Constitution?

•Pages 52-53

• What is dual federalism?

• Read the hand-out Layer v. Marble Cake and explain the differences (in relation to dual federalism) between the two cakes.