Description
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
