Barbara Sinclair provides us with a series of examples of legislation that illustrate the advent of a new legislative process that she calls "unorthodox lawmaking." She does this by analyzing the legislative history of five different legislative proposals, showing how, in each case, the leadership of the House and Senate employed unusual decision making procedures in order to move forward the legislation.
Your task in this paper is to write one additional chapter for Sinclair's book, comprising 5-7 total pages of text (not including a legislative history chart in an appendix). You need to identify a piece of legislation that you are interested in, construct a legislative history, and then use this "data" to evaluate Sinclair's model. The paper should identify the basic elements of "unorthodox lawmaking," describe your legislation, and then evaluate whether your case is a good or poor example of this new legislative process (and why or why not).
Your paper needs to include a dated legislative history (see Sinclair for an example). Our library session should provide you with all of the resources to construct the legislative history and otherwise collect the data necessary for this paper.
All other expectations hold for this paper. This is an analytical paper, not
a memo. You are expected to present a thesis; the legislative history is the
"data" for testing your thesis. Papers should be double-spaced with
margins of approximately 1 inch, 10-12 point font. Papers will be evaluated
according to creativity and originality, comprehensiveness, and spelling and
grammar. A well-organized, carefully written paper is generally superior to
one that is creative but poorly organized or difficult to read.