Bring in as many pages of handwritten notes as you'd like, as long as they are in your own handwriting. However, you may not use wordprocessed or photocopied materials, someone else's notes, or the textbook. Part II is a take-home essay due at the beginning of the Final Exam. As you study for the exam, remember that legal language is extremely specific. Therefore, it's especially important that you use the correct legal definitions, rather than paraphrasing in your own words.
Questions are in the order they appear in the textbook.
Due at the start of the in-class exam. We encountered this question in our debate over campaign finance regulations, where we asked whether unequal control of wealth gave some speakers too much power in the political process, or whether it was more important to give similar First Amendment rights to all speakers. And in Katheen Hall Jamieson's talk last week, she argued that campaign law and tobacco advertising threatened the democratic political process. For this essay, consider the question in relation to TWO of the areas of law listed below. As with the debate responses in this course, you may find that your views fall somewhere in between the two opposing positions.