Texas government

The purpose of the paper is to identify and address a federal issue between the US government and the Texas state government. This requires examining the history, application, and effectiveness of laws at both levels.
Choose one of the following topics:
• Joint Disaster Management Efforts
• Public Education Policy and the Common Core
• State Opposition to Federal Environmental Policy
• Texas Voter ID Laws and the Voting Rights Act (1965)
• Joint Law Enforcement Efforts to Combat Drug Trafficking
• Joint Law Enforcement Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking
• Joint Law Enforcement Efforts to Combat Hate Crimes/Groups
• Funding for Student Success Initiatives at Community Colleges

Conduct research to locate three academic journal articles (aka: peer-reviewed or scholarly sources) that specifically address the policy issues that you selected and meet the following criteria:
• The articles must be no more than ten (10) years old.
• The article must have more than five (5) pages of actual content (without graphs, charts, footnotes, citations, etc.).
• Books, dissertations, and theses will not count toward the scholarly source minimum requirements.
Carefully choose sources that provide a variety of perspectives on your selected topic. In addition to the minimum research requirements, you should use high-quality sources for essential current events information relevant to your topic. These include academic sources that are not peer-reviewed (position papers), newspaper articles, magazine articles, and other quality or reputable sources.

The Proposal
Submit a two page proposal (cited information do not count toward the minimum writing requirement)
The proposal should:
• Identify the topic in one or two paragraphs:
o Summarize the central issues of the policy topic you will be addressing
o Describe the current status of the policy or topic as it relates to the differing roles and/or positions of the federal and state governments
o Describe why this policy is important to Texas and the United States
o Cite each of your academic journal articles (not supplemental sources) at least once in the paragraph using correct MLA in-text citations.
o Include the Works Cited or Reference section with the three (at a minimum) peer-reviewed academic journal articles that will form the basis of your policy paper.
o These three references must be cited in the final policy paper.
o Additional sources can be added (and should if a good grade is desired), but they cannot be removed without permission after the proposal is approved.
o In-text citations and the Works Cited or Reference section must be formatted using MLA citation style. Other MLA formatting elements (e.g. header, page number format, etc.) are not used in this assignment.
o Do not use block quotations (or any quotation that exceeds three lines of text) or first person in the proposal or final policy paper!
References provided in the proposal cannot be changed at a later date without approval (see Step 4 below).