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Question: What were the five (5) steps to federal supremacy over the states? What are the benefits/downfalls to a strong federal government? Explain each, using examples. 2-Explain how the federal government enforced equality as understood in the Fourteenth Amendment. For example, how did Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas begin to dismantle state defiance? In what ways did the Civil Rights Movements and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 expand on the protection of the civil rights of minority groups and women? Name another movement and its impact. Have the actions of the federal government been adequate or too little in the last decade? Why? Use examples and be sure to connect your argument 3-Are the basic principles and ideals that Thomas Jefferson included in the Declaration of Independence adequate to ensure a democratic republic? What are those principles? Do you think that the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Letter from Birmingham Jail are necessary to further fulfill the requirements of a representative democracy? Would you expand civil liberties further? How? Use examples and connect your argument 4-What are contributing policy and social factors to mass incarceration? Should there be policy changes to address the issue of mass incarceration or is this level appropriate? If there should be changes, what would you suggest? If there should not be any changes, make an argument for why not. Use examples and be sure to connect your argument to material from text,