Graded assignments are due no later than Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 11:55 pm of the current week. Students are expected to prepare no more than 1 full page concise written response to each of the questions posed.
1 – Having read the book, if you could change any three aspects of contemporary constitutional law, including judicial decisions and judicial review, what would they be and why?
2 – Do you think posing a tension between constitutional contractarianism and public administrative instrumentalism correctly explains how administrative law fits into contemporary US constitutional government? Why or why not?
3 – Does the rise of e-government portend a degree of greater democratic participation in administrative decision making? Why or why not?
4 – Devise a hypothetical situation in which disgruntled voters utilize the process of initiative and referendum to reverse policies established through agency rule-making.
5 – Devise a hypothetical situation in which disgruntled voters utilize administrative law to reverse a policy proposed by the following past and current elected officials. (Examples could include, but are not limited to, Trump’s Border Wall, Sanders Breakup of the Large Banks, Clinton’s Debt-Free Public College or Cruz’s Abolishment of the IRS.)
