DO NOW #40

1. Describe the purpose of the War Powers Resolution.
2. Describe the purpose of the Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise).
3. Explain why the Articles of Confederation failed.
4. Describe the Madisonian model of government.
5. Define reapportionment. Why is it significant?
6. Identify the primary role of Congress in the policy process. Identify the primary role of the bureaucracy in the policy process.
7. Describe the effect of the Motor Voter Act on citizen participation in elections.
8. Explain how the commerce clause has been used to expand the power of the federal government over the states.
9. Explain how mandates have been used to expand the power of the federal government over the states.
10. Explain how block grants have played a role in the devolution of power from the national government to the states.
11. Explain why California, Texas, and New York do not appear prominently in the Electoral College.
12. Explain how the First and Tenth Amendments were additions to the Constitution that addressed Anti-Federalist concerns.
13. Explain how the equal protection clause and due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has altered the balance of power between the state and national governments.