This assignment will need you to use your critical thinking skills in assessing how the concept of federalism interacts with different current constitutional debates. In prompt for Final Research Paper, you have been given a list of current constitutional debate topics. Choose one of such topics for this assignment and make a hypothetical personal opinion article (op-ed) for your local newspaper. In this op-ed, you should take a position supporting or opposing the issue you choose. Even although you will be selecting a side, you should describe both sides of the argument and then give a logical argument why your position is valid, credible and must be supported.
Your paper must be organized to the given sections:
a) Introduction
b) Discussion/claims supporting your position
c) Discussion/claims against your position (counter-arguments)
d) Summary argument supporting your position