This assignment will need you to use your critical thinking skills in assessing how the concept of federalism interacts with different present constitutional debates. In the prompt for Final Research Paper, you have been given a list of present constitutional debate topics. Choose one of such topics for this assignment and make a hypothetical personal opinion article (op-ed) for your local newspaper. In this op-ed, you should take a position supporting or opposing the issue you select. Even though you will be selecting a side, you must describe both sides of the argument and then give a logical argument why your position is valid, credible and must be supported.

Your paper must be organized to the given sections:

a) Introduction

b) Discussion/claims supporting your position

c) Summary argument supporting your position

d) Discussion/claims against your position (counter-arguments)