Answer to Question 1
An ideal response will:
1, Describe the policies of the George W. Bush administration that significantly limited important civil liberties, including warrantless wiretapping and surveillance, secret government access and review of private financial records, indefinite detentions of American citizens without hearings, and secret deportation of detainees.
2, Describe how the Obama administration has continued many of these policies.
3, Discuss the Supreme Court's generally broad deference to the power of the executive in fighting terrorism domestically and abroad.
Answer to Question 2
An ideal response will:
1, Outline the factors that contributed to the recent financial collapse, including the housing bubble and the investment crisis.
2, Illustrate how these two factors created negative externalities, slowdowns in construction, and losses of jobs that sparked a domino effect that rippled throughout the U.S. economy.
3, Connect how the efforts to deregulate certain sectors of the financial industry, specifically investment banking, created conditions under which banks took higher risks.
4, Lay out a specific course of action that would minimize these effects in the future, including efforts to reregulate the financial and housing sectors, or alternately argue why government should not guarantee against risk.
5, Provide a clear and concise conclusion.
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