May It Please the Court …

Please respond to EACH of the following discussion topics and submit them to the discussion forum as a single post. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length. Then, make at least two thoughtful responses to your fellow students’ posts. If you haven’t recently, please review the Rules of Discussion.

For your initial post this week imagine that you are a lawyer arguing a case concerning federalism before the Supreme Court of the United States of America. This case has to do whether the power to create policy on a particular issue should be in the hands of the Federal Government, left to the States, or left in the hands of individual citizens.

Then, you must support your argument to the Supreme Court by finding and using an applicable part of the United States Constitution.

Select one of the following starters to start your argument (only do one):

• May it please the court, the federal government, not the states has the power to legalize marijuana because …
• May it please the court, the states, not the federal government, has the power to legalize marijuana because …
• May it please the court, neither the states nor federal government has the power to legalize marijuana because …
• May it please the court, the federal government, not the states, has the power to pass gun control because …
• May it please the court, the states, not the federal government, has the power to pass gun control because …
• May it please the court, neither the states nor federal government has the power to pass gun control because …
• May it please the court, the federal government, not the states, has the power to pass education policy because …
• May it please the court, the states, not the federal government, has the power to pass education policy because …
• May it please the court, neither the states nor federal government has the power to pass education policy because …
• May it please the court, the federal government, not the states, has the power to recognize or even restrict same sex marriages because …
• May it please the court, the states, not the federal government, has the power to recognize or even restrict same sex marriages because …
• May it please the court, neither the states nor federal government has the power to recognize or even restrict same sex marriages because …