Supreme Court Case : Obergefell v. Hodges
Each student will submit a 4-6 page research paper on either a piece of legislation, an executive order, or a Supreme Court case, enacted or decided since 2000 by the US federal government. The tool of policy that you chose must be active, meaning that it is a law that has been passed and is currently enforced, it is an executive order that has not been rescinded, or it is a Supreme Court case that has been decided and not overturned.
Students will use this paper to analyze the example of governmental power/action of their choice by explaining the action to the best of their understanding and then putting the issue in context of the broader scope of government For starters, ask yourself, what does this action say about the power of the branch? How does it affect the power of the branch as given by the Constitution? How does this action affect the relationship between the acting branch and the other branches? Use these questions as a basis for your paper but expand on these ideas from there. Analysis is based on data and facts, not suppositions. Challenge yourself to present statistics or scholarly evidence to back up your analysis. You must include the opinions of the court if you chose a supreme court case.
For this paper, students may only use scholarly, peer reviewed sources or governmental documents. You may access research databases, through the Lone Star College Library, such as JSTOR or Lexis Nexis for material that can help you develop the analysis associated with this paper and the websites of the US House of Representatives, US Senate, White House, or US Supreme Court to help you determine your topic. For Supreme Court cases, I would encourage you to use law reviews, such as those published by Duke or Harvard. Content that is derived from outside sources will take points away from the analysis component of the grading rubric.
Please remember that this is a research paper and not an argumentative or opinion paper.
It is not necessary for you to have your topic approved by the professor, but recognize that should you choose not to, you accept the consquences, i.e. points deducted as listed below, if your paper topic does not meet the requirements as listed in the syllabus. The analysis portion of this paper relies heavily upon your initial topic being correctly chosen. One cannot analyze that which is not actually law or a case that has not been decided on yet. If you choose an incorrect topic you will not only lose points for the topic, but also the analysis portion of the rubric.
All submitted papers will be checked for originality of the work submitted, through Turnitin.com. Points will be deducted from the final grade of the paper as the percentage of the overall work that matches to outside sources, which no citations are provided for, increases. Turnitin.com marks not only in text content but also citations that can be found in other sources. Matching citations will not be counted against the student, but matching in text content will.
The professor is available for notes on a rough draft of this paper. All rough drafts must be submitted by 72 hours prior to the due date in order to be considered. The professor is willing to meet with students during office hours to discuss their paper.
Format:
-Submitted as a .doc or .docx file ONLY, no other forms of papers will be accepted.
-Double spaced
-12 pt Arial or Times New Roman font
-1 inch margins
-Page numbers in the bottom right hand corner
-Cover page, with student information, and Bibliography are not included in the overall page limits
-Citations must appear as in text citations or footnores and in a bibliography page, no endnotes.
-You must have a minimum of 2 sources- from scholarly, peer reviewed sources or government sources only
PAPERS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN THE DIGITAL DROP BOX ON THE D2L COURSE HOMEPAGE BY
2PM ON DECEMBER 13, 2016.
ONLY PAPERS SUBMITTED TO THE DIGITAL DROPBOX WILL BE ACCEPTED. EMAILED OR LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE GIVEN A ZERO.
Rubric:
Topic of paper falls within the scope of the assignment- 5pts
Analysis is clear and shows depth (i.e. The student exhibits a clear understanding of the instrument of government chosen and shows how that tool of policy expands, contracts, or changes the role of its assigned government entity, and then shows how this tool affects society as a whole, with data and scholarly evidence only.)- 20pts
Paper is correctly formatted, including proper citations, grammar, and use of academic language, and student presents completed paper in class- 5p
………………….Answer Preview……………….
Student Name:
Instructor Name:
Course number:
Section:
Date:
Obergefell v. Hodges
The right for same sex marriage has been a struggling fight for over decades and has been denied from various jurisdictions. Outcomes as such have stemmed from traditional thinking and beliefs. In previous years same sex marriage was commonly frowned upon yet as time progresses so does people. On June 26, 2015 a 5-4 decision was made in the case of Oberg fell v. Hodges in which same-sex couples should be granted the right to marry under the fundamentals of…….
MLA
1463 words