<p>I put that Congress controls funding, and I can’t remember the other one.</p>
<p>annn: A asked for the main military power struggle between the President and Congress. I put that Congress funds but the Prez sends. C asked for two other formal powers Congress has. I put declaring war and something else. And since I’m on a roll, B asked for what that resolution of 1970 did. I guessed a veto-proof resolution and 60 day limit for any presidential sending of troops.</p>
<p>-The Presidential Coot66</p>
<p>For the first part of #2, I forgot to mention “Establishment clause” and “Free Exercise clause” in my answers because I thought that Freedom of Religion was all they were asking for but I did however describe these exact clauses in the 2 court cases I chose so I don’t know how much that will hurt me.</p>
<p>As far as the last part of #2, I said Civil Rights groups and Congress and my reasons were that (1) Civil rights groups could appeal to the masses and put pressure on the Supreme Court to reverse their decision and that (2) Congress could overrule the Supreme Court’s decision/pass legislation against it</p>
<p>I put right about the same thing. For C, I put declaring war and ratifying peace treaties- I stretched this so that it applied to war making powers, so I’m not sure I’ll get full points for it. </p>
<p>What did y’all put for why the electoral college hasn’t been aboilshed yet?
I put that since that since most state legislatures pick delegates for the electoral college, they mostly pick those who stay loyal to the party. I cited Texas as an example as they mostly give their electoral votes to republicans. States basically are given the power to pick who gets all their electoral votes, so they are given more power through the electoral college. For the 2nd reason, I put that the process to abolish the electoral college would be throught an amendment which is a long and complicated procedure since 2/3rds of congress has propose it and then 2/3rds to ratify it. I’m not sure the 2nd part is right.</p>
<p>My friend seemed pretty confident the answer was TRADITION.</p>
<p>The electoral college does a good job of giving representation to smaller states and remains an expedient process to conduct elections rather than having to count up every popular vote.</p>
<p>Did you guys give examples to back up all your claims because I never did that once during the FRQ? I thought you just had to answer the question lol.</p>
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<p>I put the same thing. It didn’t seem that far of a stretch though the way I explained it… hope I did okay.</p>
<p>I said that the Framers never wanted direct democracy and the electoral college helped establish a representative one. Also put the tradition bit which sounded dumb… I used examples sometimes (hopefully the grader will think I tried extra hard or something).</p>
<p>-The Representative Coot66</p>
<p>I kind of did the opposite for A and C. For A I put that the main conflict is that congress declares war, but the prez is commander in chief, and then for C i mentioned funding the war, hopefully i don’t get that one wrong, cuz i bombed the other part of the war powers question.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and my other C I put down how Congress has to confirm any changes the Prez makes to Secretary of Defense or commanding generals (if you can’t tell I tried to fit some current events into questions i didn’t really know, in this case the Petraeus and Gates confirmations immediately came to mind).</p>
<p>For #3, I put down that the War Powers Resolution let Congress put a limit on the amount of troops and amount of time the president could send them into combat. I didn’t know the specific days or number of troops - is that ok? Do you think they will give me points for that?</p>
<p>And for the Reynolds v. U.S. case (polygamy) I bs’ed it and said that they ruled it unconstitutional because a marriage is defined as a union between a man and a woman - not more than that. Would I get points for that? lol</p>
<p>Does Congress have to approve a president’s actions in increasing troops in wartime?</p>
<p>I put that down as one of the ways Congress limits the president’s power other than with the War Powers Resolution. </p>
<p>lmao, I was grabbing at air on that last part.</p>
<p>for C i said that the prez had to inform congress he was deploying troops within 48 hours of doing it, and that the senate had to approve of the troop deployment within 60 days or else he had to bring them back.</p>
<p>for the IMPOSSIBLE SUPREME COURT QUESTION FROM HELL i said that ways to get around supreme court decisions were to pass new laws with different wording that basically accomplished the same thing, and to not enforce the decisions (i used brown v. board of education as an example, and how in like, little rock, the desegregation didn’t really happen even though it was supposed to. do you think that’d be good? i think that was my only chance at points for that essay, lol)</p>
<p>electoral college i said would never be abolished because the littler states (like new jersey) would never allow it, because their role in the election would go down even more than it already is. i don’t remember my other reasoning…</p>
<p>for the powers of congress that you had to list two… do u think they would accept ratifying treaties to end wars?</p>
<p>“IMPOSSIBLE SUPREME COURT QUESTION FROM HELL”</p>
<p>Lmao 
That is so true.</p>
<p>Do you really need a 68% for a 4?:(</p>
<p>what did you guys put for the two reasons why the electoral college hasnt been abolished yet?</p>
<p>^ Check out the previous page…</p>
<p>-The Previous Coot66</p>
<p>tradition and mob mentality/uneducated voting.</p>
<p>in what part of the electoral college system does the winner-take-all feature come in? i felt pretty confident about it when i was writing but then second-guessed myself… is it when a candidate get all the electoral votes of the states even if one person votes for another candidate?</p>
<p>Duh… LOL!</p>
<p>But usually it’s more than “one person” who votes for another candidate…</p>
<p>-The Laughing Coot66</p>
<p>the free-response questions are on collegeboard.com… when do the scoring guidlines go up?</p>