Texas Legislative Branch, Redistricting, Campaigns and Elections under Federalism
Order ID | 53563633773 |
Type | Essay |
Writer Level | Masters |
Style | APA |
Sources/References | 4 |
Perfect Number of Pages to Order | 5-10 Pages |
Under Federalism, Reflective Writing: Texas Legislative Branch, Redistricting, Campaigns, and Elections
Instructions for Completion and Requirements
You must include in-text citations for any work that is directly quoted or paraphrased in your essay. You do not, however, need to include a direct citation next to each item of information in your chart. A bibliography with bibliographic citations will serve. Respond to the prompt completely and thoroughly when composing your essay.
Your response should be based on your own analysis and views. Citations in MLA can be formatted in any way as long as they are consistent. With scholarly application, research and resources should be incorporated. To put it another way, they were utilized as instances or proof to back up your argument. Make sure to utilize whole phrases and correct grammar. Your solution to the prompt should center on assessing the data you gathered and using it to complete the constitutional chart. Incorporate the information you acquired into your response to the challenge by using it to provide examples and support.
The length of your analysis and essay must be at least 2 pages. The bibliography is not included in this figure. A separate page should be dedicated to the bibliography.
In a thorough assignment, I need information to be organized logically and in detail, with concrete examples. Quality takes precedence over quantity.
Prompt:
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Consider federalism and how power is distributed across multiple levels of government, including the federal and state levels. Find current federal and Texas laws that regulate elections, such as those that address electoral processes, eligibility to vote, selection methods, winning requirements, candidate qualifications, and determining when and how elections are held. Discuss inconsistencies and give some examples of how they could affect electoral outcomes, including who is declared the winner, and eventually achieving democratic representation of the people (constituents) who would be electorally linked and impacted by the winner of a political office.
Is re-redistricting before the decennial census, in your opinion, a felony under statutory and constitutional law? Or, given the type and frequency of state level elections held throughout a large geographic area with a highly demographically diverse population, make it politically necessary for re-mapping between censuses to be a reserved authority of the states in order to maximize representative democracy. How can the remapping of Texas be used to explain the state’s Don’t Mess With Texas attitude, as well as its individualistic political culture?
How would you argue that re-redistricting was not unconstitutional, and how would you argue that re-redistricting was a violation of the Voting Rights Act? Should the federal judicial system be involved in what Justice Felix Frankfurter called the “political tangle” of partisan redistricting, despite the Texas remapping controversy? Particularly since redistricting is a power reserved for the state and its citizens. Should the resolution of political gerrymandering be left to the voters, state by state and jurisdiction by jurisdiction, or to the federal government? (i.e. oversight, regulation, intervention, law…what do you think).