This document provides instructions for a political science exam consisting of 10 written essay questions. Students are asked to submit their answers to the questions in a single file by the deadline. They should number their answers to correspond with the questions and not include the text of the questions. Each response should be less than 4 pages single-spaced and cite only sources from class materials, indicating any direct quotes. Extracurricular sources should generally not be used.

1. a political science written essay questions
POLITICAL SCIENCE 102Instructions: Please put your answers to all of the exam’s 10
written questions into one file, and submit it by 11:59PM (one minute before midnight) on
Saturday, November 23, to the Turnitin link posted under Assignments on Blackboard.
Please make sure to do your responses in order, and number them so that we know which
question you are answering. Please do NOT include the text of the questions in the file you
submit, only the question numbers of the questions as you answer them. Each of the 10
questions is worth up to 10 points, so the whole exam is worth 100 points total. Your
response should be single-spaced and should require no more than 4 pages at maximum.
You should need most of the 4 pages to write a good and sufficiently detailed response to
each of the questions, but please do not exceed 4 pages total. You should not need to cite
any sources other than the lectures, the Kernell text, and Blackboard readings. Please do
make sure to indicate when you are quoting from any source, whether from in the class
resources or outside them, and make sure to provide full citations for any sources you use
that are not included in the class syllabus. Usually, it is a bad idea to use any extracurricular
sources because it is at the expense of the sources from class that you should be citing.1.
Please assess the degree to which the U.S. Congress represents the demography of this
country.2. What do you think about term limits for the U.S. Congress? It’s ok to be either in
favor of or opposed to them, but please explain your opinion based on the information from
lectures and your texts, as well as your own common sense and knowledge of politics.3.
How are war powers divided between the President and Congress? Is it correct to say that
Congress in empowered to declare war?4. Please discuss the way that improvements in the
technologies available for both communication and transportation have strengthened the
American presidency.5. If the Electoral College is a mechanism for ensuring that the
Presidential election recapitulates for the executive branch the same Great Compromise
that exists for the legislative branch, do you think that it is defensible upon that basis?
Please explain why or why not.6. Please discuss the existence of iron triangles and captured
agencies; how do the electoral realities of the presidency make his/her control of the
executive branch problematic?7. How do presidents address the problem of their
subordinates “going native―?8. How did Marshall solve his dilemma and strengthen
judicial review with his decision in Marbury v. Madison?9. How did the supremacy clause
and the elastic clause play a role in McCulloch v. Maryland?10. How can we preserve a
system of checks and balances if the Supreme Court assumes too much authority for itself?