Review and consider the Supreme Court cases/decisions studied within this unit. Decide which of these cases has, or is likely to have the greatest impact on you, as an individual. You may consider political or historical contexts, cultural implications, legal ramifications, religious, or other issues which you perceive as important. Your response should be three or more well developed paragraphs which (1) identifies the name of the decision; (2) includes a summary of the background of the case (What caused the case to come to the court?); (3) provides the constitutional reference for the case (What portion(s) of the Constitution were under consideration?); (4) summarizes the decision of the court; and (5) explains your opinion as to why this particular case is of such importance to you.

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.