Determining Democracy
Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity:

· Textbook: Chapter 1 ,2, 3

· Lesson: Read this Week’s Lesson which is located in the Modules tab

· Initial Post: minimum of 2 scholarly sources (must include your textbook for one of the sources). Follow-Up Post: minimum of 1 scholarly source for your Follow-Up Post.

· Your Initial Post and your Follow-Up Post must be based on the same Option that you chose in order to receive credit for both posts.

Initial Post Instructions

For the initial post, respond to one of the following options, and label the beginning of your post indicating either Option 1 or Option 2:

· Option 1: Does democracy require equality of income or wealth? Discuss why democracy might make a country more or less egalitarian?

· Option 2: Political scientist Larry Sabato has proposed a new constitutional convention Links to an external site. . Select any one of his proposed ideas

Be sure to make connections between your ideas and conclusions and the research, concepts, terms, and theory we are discussing this week.

Writing Requirements

· Minimum of 2 sources cited (assigned readings/online lessons and an outside source) for your Initial Post, and 1 scholarly source for your Follow-Up Post.

· APA format for in-text citations and list of references