Vicente PSCI3412 essay 2

Essay #2: Please answer all of the following questions:

1. How has the tradition of domestic political hyper-partisanship shaped U.S. foreign policy since the beginning of the Republic?
2. Has this hyper-partisanship moved away in the modern era (1965 until today) from the constitutional “invitation to struggle” into a volatile extension of domestic friction that negatively impacts the reputation and credibility of the US on the world stage?

The goal is for you to author an appropriately researched and formatted argumentative essay that answers the questions posed in the assignment. Each essay is to be about 2000 words. Footnotes or endnotes are required; Author-Date In-text Citations must include page numbers. e.g. (Smith, 154). The content is to be typed, double-spaced, font 12. The assignment must have appropriate footnotes or endnotes in Chicago (preferred), APA, or MLA style documentation. A bibliography is optional. Ensure your PDF version correctly displays your footnotes or endnotes after converting to PDF. The cover page, endnotes, and bibliography (if used) do not count in the word count. The naming convention for the PDF file is lastnamePSCI3412essay#.pdf (the last name being the student’s last name and Essay # being, e.g., Essay#1, Essay#2, etc.) All submissions must include the student’s name, course number, and title on the cover page.

Guidelines for Grading Your Essays: The highest grades will go to appropriately structured essays that accomplish the following: 1) substantively answers the questions (60% of the grade); 2) correctly uses concepts and terminology from the class (20% of the grade); 3) is grammatically correct and error-free (10% of the grade). Following these submission directions precisely is worth 10% of the grade.

The following rubric will be used to grade 1) and 2) totaling 80 percent of the grade.