Description For your final assignment, you will write an analytical research paper addressing a major issue of your choosing from among the topics covered in this course. As a research paper, you will have to answer a significant puzzle related to a course topic. For this assignment, you are essentially doing the first three elements…
Description Is the right to travel a fundamental right inherent to citizens, which cannot be abridged? Is this idea, well established in our history as Americans? Discuss the various new screening systems that may have civil liberties advocates concerned for various reasons including for mistaken identities or for the treatment of every individual as a…
Description Analyze the idea that the only way to safeguard the public from continuing threat of bioterrorism is to impose restrictions on civil liberties. What are some trends that have been taken in American history in dealing with public health issues? Describe the various elements of public health statutes that are important elements of public…
Description How has the federal government responded to possible terrorist attacks (mitigation) where civil liberties have not been endangered? Considering that so much of the nation’s critical infrastructure is privately owned, how has the government regulated possible civil liberties issues related to private sector employers/employees? Can balanced policy be implemented regarding critical infrastructure without eroding…
Description Discuss the pre-9/11 statutes that required government to notify Americans when it collected private information compared to the post-9/11 statutes? Discuss how the USA Patriot Act expanded wiretapping and surveillance powers and how judicial review decreased. Has information sharing, intelligence oversight, and organizational mechanisms that were put in place after the 9/11 attacks improved?…
Description If the attitudes and preferences regarding immigration in this country are driven by the actual or potential threat, should there be a better way of framing the immigration threat to the country? Are the emergency policies and actions that have been taken from past and current Administrations keeping this country safer without undermining the…