Legal Process Project

There are five (5) tasks for the Legal Process Project, as follows:

Legal Process Project Tasks:

(1) Analysis of the Constitution

Read and analyze the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Choose the institutional power and the personal right you believe to be the most important, and explain why; choose the institutional power and the personal right you would remove, and explain why; and add a power and a right that you would include, and explain why (two to four pages, double-spaced).

(2) Homeland Security Legislative Issues

Write a 4-6 page double spaced legislative analysis of only 1 of the following bills from the 114th Congress. Your analysis should include consideration of the:

Legislative History
Agency Involvement
Cost Implications (CBO Score); and
Committee Reports
Pros and Cons of the legislation
Recommendation to the head of the agency on implementing the act
APA compliance to APA 6th including citations and reference page
Pick only 1 from the following:.

Public Law 114-268 First Responder Anthrax Preparedness Act

Report 114-251: Report of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs to accompany S. 1915
CBO Score: Implementation cost $4 million over 2016-2020 period. Enactment would no directly effect spending or revenues or increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits. It would not affect state, local, or tribal government budgets
Public Law 114-143 Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act of 2015.
Report 114-73: Report of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs to accompany S. 1180
CBO Score: Implementation would cost $37 million over 2015-2020 period. Enactment would not impact direct spending or revenues.

(3) Identification of Two Pre-9/11 Homeland Security Events

As we study this new concept of “homeland security,” we quickly learn that threats to national security are not new. In fact, the United States faced major threats to its existence even before it was officially a nation. Identify and describe two such events in U.S. history that occurred prior to September 11, 2001, and explain why this event/threat was similar to current homeland security events.( one to two pages double space)

(4) Legal Counsel Exercise

You will be given a scenario, where you are the legal counsel for a militant nongovernmental group. This is a foreign group, with concerns about the ability of the U.S. to attack this group, detention of group members, either in other foreign countries or in Guantanamo Bay, military tribunals, spying on U.S. citizens by the U.S., attacking the U.S., the U.S. Constitution, and the U.S. Federal government. You need to write out the answers to the specific questions that will be provided in the classroom, answering all questions fully and providing citations and references where appropriate. ( 2 pages single space)

(5) Statute Draft

For this task, you need to identify the next great idea in homeland security. Articulate and format your idea as the introduction to a new legislative act. You will be provided the introduction to the USA PATRIOT Act as an example of how to format the task. Formulate an idea for a new law regarding Homeland Security and using the USA PATRIOT Act as a template, write out the introduction to your new Act. Example of this statute is found in HMLS 406 at a Glance