High-quality writing Assignment:
Write an essay that addresses one of the following questions. please submit in Word. The maximum length is 1500 words (six standard double-spaced pages using 12 point font); the minimum is 1250 words. The paper is worth 16%-20% of your final grade. Please use the “Writing History” manual that was distributed in class and posted on the class website; you are expected to use the recommended guidelines for formatting, tense, quotations, and references (footnotes or endnotes). Please rely primarily or exclusively on assigned course readings only.
For all of the options, you are expected to make an argument and support that argument with quotations and paraphrases from a minimum of six relevant primary texts, meaning six or more Supreme Court decisions. You are encouraged to mention other relevant decisions in your footnotes. Note that your argument should take into consideration all of the assigned cases, even if you only discuss six. This assignment requires textual analysis. Refer to specific passages and specific sections of the primary texts. You may also use secondary texts, but your main task is to analyze the primary sources. Note that the materials provided include my short introductions (in italics), which are not primary sources and should not be quoted, and excerpts of the Supreme Court’s decisions, which are primary sources. Since this is a short paper, you cannot address every possible issue; you should select the best illustrative examples. This is not the type of assignment that asks you to address the history of the world or the history of America since the beginning of time; please focus on the question you select. For this assignment, you do not need to provide footnotes for the U.S. Constitution, but if relevant you should mention which article or amendment you are discussing.
For citations, these are recommended models:
Morgan v. Virginia, 328 U.S. 373 (1946).
Melvin I. Urofsky and Paul Finkelman, A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States, Vol. 2, 3rd edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
(1) Did the U.S. Supreme Court act strongly, decisively, and effectively to end racial segregation in the 1945-1969 era?
(2) Did the Supreme Court act strongly, decisively, and effectively to end discrimination in voting and elections in the 1945-1969 era?
(3) Did the Supreme Court’s civil rights rulings violate the constitutional rights of private businesses and individual homeowners in the 1945-1969 era?
(4) Did the Supreme Court’s decisions support women’s rights, reproductive rights, marital rights, and gay rights in the 1945-1969 era?
(5) Did the Supreme Court’s civil rights rulings strengthen federal government powers and weaken state and local government powers in the 1945-1969 era?
The only source to be used is :
A March of Liberty A Constitutional History of the United States, Volume 2, From 1898 to the Present
by: Urofsky, Melvin; Finkelman, Paul
ISBN 13: 9780195382747
ISBN 10: 0195382749
Edition: 3rd