I need help with project in Government

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I. Title and Number of Course: GOVT 2305 Federal Government

II. Title of Assignment: Response Assignment Topic I: Amending the Constitution

III. Foundational Component Area: Critical Thinking, Communication, Personal Responsibility and Social Responsibility

IV. Core Objectives assessed in this assignment:

A. Critical Thinking: To include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information

B. Communication: To include the effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral and visual communication.

C. Personal Responsibility: To include the ability to connect choice, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making

D. Social Responsibility: To include demonstration of intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility and to engage effectively in regional, national, and/or global communities.

V. Description of Assignment:

Response Assignment Topic I: Amending the Constitution

This assignment is 25% of your grade.

While the Constitution has been amended only 27 times since it was drafted in 1787, there have been thousands of proposed amendments. For this assignment, you will be placed into groups and assigned an Amendment plus one proposed amendment/joint resolution.

1. Select proposed Amendment/Joint Resolution/or Amendment:

a. Each group will select and research an Amendment and a proposed Amendment/or Joint Resolution to the U.S. Constitution

b. The group will write a brief on the Amendment ratification process and the proposed Amendment/Joint Resolution process. Brief should include the pros and cons of each, challenges, biases, demographics involved in the process.

2. Gather support materials:

a. Your brief will require three sources, only one from internet.

b. Each group will present a visual with presentation/Power Point and a ballot with demographics so that each member of the class can vote on the Amendment and the proposed Amendment/Joint Resolution.

3. Analyze voting results.

VI. Assessment of Core Objectives:*

This Assignment will be assessed using the Core Objective Rubrics

VII. Artifacts to be collected:

The brief with sources documented

Ballot for voting with the Amendment and the proposed Amendment/Joint Resolution

Voting results from the class/Congressional/State/Committee Voting Analysis

Copy of the Power Point

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