1. We have learned about different models of studying the US Congress, please explain them, and taking these models as your basis, discuss briefly which model you believe is most useful in describing Congress today and predicting how it will evolve in the future?

2. What is the seesaw effect of successful federalism? Discuss this with the sources of national government and state power. Provide 2 cases as examples one as decentralizing, one as centralizing. Make sure to have appropriate references to the Constitution.

3. Explain the relationship between expansion of the executive powers over time and the changes in the powers of federal government? Are they correlated?

Choose one president in the light of the presidential models we have studied and explain how he impacted the executive branch and what developments took place during his administration in the federal government?