What role do the national party conventions play in the election process? Assess whether the convention process should be reformed
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: An ideal response will:
1. Explain that the national party conventions are where the party platforms are determined and the presidential candidates are nominated by party delegates.
2. Note that the current system uses the conventions as a way to mobilize party supporters more than as a forum to deliberate on the nominees, who likely have already been determined.
3. Indicate that each party's platform is a set of durable guidelines to steer the party until the next convention and that platforms give voters a sense of what the candidates believe in and the issues they think are important for the country to address.
4. Make an argument for or against reforming the convention process.
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Which of the following disputes should an American court decline to hear on the basis of the act of state doctrine?
a. A foreign dictator confiscates a warehouse containing merchandise belonging to an American corporation, which is located in the territory of the foreign sovereign. The American corporation wants to challenge, in an American court, the right of the dictator to seize the property in his country. b. A Florida woman unknowingly marries a Cuban spy, an agent of the Cuban government who was sent to infiltrate the Miami Cuban community in order to obtain information concerning Brothers to the Rescue, a group that aids people trying to escape from Cuba. She alleges that her relationship with the spy was nonconsensual as she did not know of his surreptitious directions from the Cuban government to marry her just to obtain information. She wishes to seek damages from Cuba in an American court. c. An agent of the intelligence branch of the Libyan government was responsible for a terrorist act that injured Americans. The act that caused the damages did not occur in Libya. The Americans wish to sue Libya in an American court for their injuries. d. None of the above is correct.