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Women In The U.S. Congress, Selby Tucker

Honors Colloquium

After receiving a Ben Elrod Travel Scholarship to travel to Washington D.C., Selby Tucker shared her experience interviewing women in Congress and analyzing their campaign finances, bill sponsorships, electoral history, and personal testaments to draw conclusions about their ability to fairly participate in the legislative process.

Modern American Federalism: Defending A Dualist Approach To State-Federal Government Relations, Julia E. Williams

Honors Theses

One of the greatest tenets of what American founders called this "experiment in democracy" is the Constitutional standard of federalism. Those in the Continental Congress labored over the proper relationship of a people to its government and, thus, the proper size of government that this relationship implies.

The tyranny from which the young republic sought independence just thirteen years before the drafting of the Constitution was a pervasive and seemingly omniscient one. The hand of the British Crown into the affairs of the common man was an instrument of autocratic control, rather than that of guiding protection. According to Constitutional …