PADM 600

RESEARCH PAPER: LIMITED GOVERNMENT AND BALANCED BUDGET

AMENDMENT ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

OVERVIEW

All public budget policies and ideas ultimately arise from presumptive and foundational ideas

related to the proper role and limits of government. Debates include acceptable and productive

financial practices of government activity within the lives of citizens. After carefully reviewing

this Module’s readings, you will conduct your own research and write a concise but thorough

research paper examining the Constitutional limits on the federal government and the rationale

employed by proponents of a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution.

INSTRUCTIONS

For this Research Paper: Limited Government and Balanced Budget Amendment

Assignment, you should prepare a 5-7 pages research paper in APA format (not including title

page, reference page, and any appendices). You must also include a title and reference page,

citations from appropriate professional, scholarly, or other appropriate sources to fully support

your assertions and conclusions. Additionally, your Research Paper: Limited Government

and Balanced Budget Amendment Assignment must contain citations from the course text

books, assigned readings, and a minimum of 5 additional sources which does not include the

course textbooks, assigned readings, and the Bible.

The Research Paper: Limited Government and Balanced Budget Amendment

Assignment’s content should:

1) fully explain what is meant by “constitutionally limited government,”

2) provide an analysis of the general limits on government that should influence government

spending/budgeting,

3) Explain the relationship between constitutionally limited government and the rationale

employed by proponents of a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution

and

4) evaluate these issues considering a Judeo-Christian worldview.

This is a graduate-level Research Paper: Limited Government and Balanced Budget

Amendment Assignment designed to test your ability to carefully research, effectively

organize, and concisely communicate a nuanced understanding of the concepts and issues raised

in the assignment. While the minimum page limit is short (as is often the case in public

policy/public administration briefings), students are expected to craft efficient, highly substantive

papers.

You are expected to comport with the highest writing, research, and ethical standards.

Additionally, to do well on this assignment, you must conduct high-quality research and offer

rich, well-supported analysis; mere opinion or conjecture will not suffice.

There must be no careless or simple grammatical errors such as misspellings, incomplete

sentences, comma splices, instances of faulty noun/verb agreement, etc. Such errors will result in

significant point deductions.

Plagiarism in any form is strictly prohibited and may result in failure of the assignment, failure

of the course, and/or removal from the program. It is your responsibility to ensure that you fully

understand what constitutes the various forms of plagiarism and that you avoid all forms of

plagiarism.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool