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What are your plans for after graduation? 

Are you a junior or a senior?

What are some of your hobbies and interests?

Is there a name other than your official first name that you go by?

What previous math courses have you taken in high school?

In a laboratory exercise determined to identify a substance, a student weighed a piece of metal and found it to be 8.1 grams.  They dropped it in water, and the water rose 3.0 mL.  What is the identify of the metal?  (Look at the densities on the front page of the Chemistry Reference Table).

Essay (50 points) Congressional Power What is the difference between unicameral, asymmetric bicameralism, and symmetric bicameralism?  What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?  Could power be consolidated in Congress in order to make it more like a parliament?   Would this be desirable?  What would be the advantages and disadvantages of concentration of power in the hands of a few leaders?  Should Congress be changed to strengthen the power of the institution relative to the presidency?

Identifications (50 points) Define and state the significance of 4 of the following: Supreme Court Confirmation Process Filibuster Presidential Approval Ratings Judicial Review Presidential Veto The Cabinet

Identifications (50 points) Define and state the significance of 4 of the following: Fourteenth Amendment          Articles of Confederation New Jersey Plan Gitlow v. New York Separation of Powers Unitary System

Essay (50 points) The Constitution How is the U.S. Constitution distinct from that of other countries?  Is the brevity and vagueness of the U.S. Constitution a strength or weakness of the document?  How can we understand the provisions of the U.S. Constitution based on the time at which it was written?  Are there any antiquated elements of the U.S. Constitution?  Is it time for another Constitutional Convention?