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Chapter 3 starts off by addressing the growth of the executive power over the years. In the 1800's there were many problems to face, like the "population growth, and Industrial Revolution; the growing amount of legislation that favored private interest; and a mounting load of state indeptness"(51). Which is why the executive branch begin to accumulate more power during that time. But focusing on our present time today, their are some side affects to many old Constitutions. According to Ann O'M. Bowman many states that have very old constitutions seem to have trouble understanding them. This is do to the old language that is no longer spoken, and the misunderstanding of some words. The constitutions need to be translated into modern language for people to understand. Also these constitutions are made for people living at the time that the constitution was publish not now. This problems we have no are not the problems that citizens had back than. Apart from the constitu...

For this weeks chapter we are reading about Politics, Parties, and Campaigns. This chapter speaks deeply about the 2 important political groups which are Republican and Democratic. The two are described in Page 94, " The Republicans typically have been considered the party of the big business, the Democrats the party of the workers." I don't know how I feel about this description in the book, although it may be very true. The book states that, "Republicans tend to be more conservative, favoring   a limited role of government; Democrats tend to be more liberal, preferring a more activist government". These two groups work very hard during campaigns to try to get a representative to run for the presidency. Once elections are made one of two people are chosen to be the Presidents. On Figure 5.1 you can see the over the years the Republican Party has more older people who vote for them. Which is why this makes sense, the Republicans have more older people on their s...