Complete all of these tasks
-Take a clear position on this issue
-Support your position with well-reasoned claims (arguments)
-Support claims and position with evidence and quotations from the texts
(Use Homework E, handouts, class notes, homework ...)
-Respond and refute counterclaims made your peers in previous posts
Homework E
“Political Parties and Democracy,” (pg243-250) S.C. Stokes
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~zshipley/pol431/PoliticalParties.pdf
“Democracy’s ‘Cancer’” Mickey Edwards on WHYY (20m, 44s)
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/04/160541977/mickey-edwards-on-democracys-cancer
“Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System” Report
Reader, page 175
“Perspectives on American Political Parties,” Martin Wattenberg
Reader, page 179