1Guide to Abbreviations Used to Evaluate Midterm Essays MLM = Missing Lecture Material—missing essential information provided in lecture and/or class discussions IAR = Incomplete use of Assigned Reading—missing assigned reading material essential to the essay IWD = Incomplete use of Writing and/or Documents—missing key points in the material used in your essay. NW = Needs Work—you make an essential point, but you can be more precise and accurate in doing so. Refer to lectures and/or assigned reading. DF = Develop Further—you make a good point, but need to explain it more completely I = Incomplete discussion and/or explanation—you miss essential information DOI = Declaration of Independence CON = Constitution BOR = Bill of Rights ICP = Incomplete on Central Principles IL = Incomplete link—you do not clearly connect your point to a specific part of the Constitution or Bill of Rights. You do not clearly connect your point to the topic of the essay; i.e. Union and slavery. D/B&EE = Define Eras/Beginning and Ending of Eras General Criticisms 1. Too few took full advantage of the commentaries in Dolbeare and Cummings 2. Not having done all of the assigned reading, too many resorted to what you knew coming into the course. 3. Did not write about all of the required elements in the topic2Essay A – Political Thought producing the Constitution and Bill of Rights 1. Identify most important roots and link them to the Constitution & Bill of Rights >Pre-Colonial in the 55 Cities (not Paris for Constitution so much—some BOR) >Colonial with Mayflower Compact; Model of Ch. Charity; Fundamental Orders of CT; >Pre and Post--Constitutional Ratification – Articles of Confed; Adams; Paine; Mason; DOI; Federalist & Anti-Federalist writings 2. Specify central principles & link to writings & documents: >Consent of governed/popular sovereignty >Constitutionalism/limited government >Republican or representative government/consensual & deliberative assemblies >Separation of powers & Checks & balances >Federalism—Madison & 10th Amendment!!! >Liberty/political freedom based on individual rights >Due process of law 3. Review most important arguments for and against ratification of Constitution 4. Identify most important thinker of First American Revolution & justify choice3Essay B on Slavery and Union from 1600 to 1865 1. Specify the Eras of American Political Thought under examination – should note that slavery began soon after colonization and eventually became codified in Colonial law—it was a legal & political institution by 1776. The continuation of slavery as a legal & political institution was a price and condition of the formation of the Union in 1789, despite broad recognition of its incongruity in a democratic-republic. Practice became law, which reinforced and legitimized practice, which produced America’s “peculiar” institution in southern and border states. A local rather than a national institution which imperiled the Union by producing the “House divided against itself.” 2. Identify & explain writing/documents that best explain slavery & Union >Maryland Slave law >Declaration of Independence >Articles of Confederation >Northwest Ordinance >Constitution & 10th Amendment >Dred Scott Case 3. Identify the most important thinkers & present most important arguments over slavery & Union >Jefferson >Calhoun >Frederick Douglas >William Lloyd Garrison >Fitzhugh >Taney & McLean >Lincoln 4. Trace Lincoln’s evolving position on slavery & Union 5. Your view as to why the Civil War Amendments proved insufficient to assure full and equal citizenship (not “equality” or nondiscrimination per se!) – Reference to state dodges around the Amendments, rise of the Ku Klux Klan, Plessy v Ferguson, and deeply embedded racism appropriate here! I was hoping you would pick up on the fact that such Great Men as Jefferson and Lincoln considered the Black race inferior and others such as Taney, Fitzhugh and Calhoun were out-and-out racists—to note how difficult it would to be to attain equal