Blog Assignment 6 -- Your Midterm on March 31 -- On Life, Love and Death

For your midterm assignment, your blog group will make a twenty-minute presentation on your blog to the rest of the class. Each member of the blog must present in order to receive credit. The work you have done so far on your blog creating your constitution will give you the basis of the presentation, but I would like you to answer the following:

1. Knowing what we do about the relationship between marriage, happiness and poverty, does your group want to encourage or discourage long-term, stable marriages? What kinds of laws and policies (at least three) would you enact to realize your goal? Address who can get married and who can't.

2. Having learned more about assisted suicide, what does your group think about it? What kind of laws or policies would you develop under your constitution to encourage or discourage such practice? Are these public policies or private ones?

3. On the issue of life, what does your group think of abortion? This is where you get to play judge. Listen to the US Supreme Court oral argument in Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstadt .  It's an hour long.  Assuming United States law, how would you decide the case? Each member of your group must vote, and you must present your decision to the class.  Would the result be different under your own constitution?

To give you time to complete your group work, I will give you the entire class period next week, March 17. We will not meet as a class and you can choose to meet together on campus or elsewhere, or by skype or FaceTime, etc.

Note: obviously, for this assignment, you should have your blog posts prepared in time for class on the 31st, but they will still not be counted until midnight that night