Congressional Hearing & Written Assignment

Written Assignment

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WITNESSES & DEFENDANTS - CLICK HERE FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT

For Review:
• The Defendants Andrew Carnegie, J.D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan are charged:
(1) Violating working class and competing business' rights guaranteed under the
14th Amendment (Life, Liberty, and Property)
(2) Creation of a monopoly in violation to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
(3) Corrupt business practices and committing graft to further their business and
political interests
• The Defendant Boss William Tweed is charged:
(1) Voter fraud
(2) Embezzlement and graft at the public's expense
(3) Corrupt business practices and committing graft to further his
political interests

DEFENDANTS:
Your paper needs to summarize the charges brought against you, and you need to argue against each of these based upon specific details and examples. Your paper must also discuss how you have helped improve America through your legacy.

DEFENDANT CHARACTER WITNESSES:
Your paper needs to summarize the charges brought against Capitalist entrepreneurs, and you need to argue against each of these based upon specific details and examples. Your paper must also discuss how you have helped improve America through your legacy, and how laissez-faire capitalism, political machines, or Social Darwinism are beneficial for American prosperity.

PROSECUTION WITNESSES:
Your paper needs to summarize the charges brought against your assigned person that you are accusing, and you need to argue in favor of each of these based upon specific details and examples. Your paper must also discuss specifically how the person you are accusing has infringed upon the rights of the American working class and how they are destroying America through their practices.

CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES:
Complete your background research assignment and compose a list of questions for the witnesses. This must be completed BEFORE the Congressional Hearing. You are a jury and the lawyers, but you are not necessarily impartial. It is the witnesses jobs to provide you with information to help you make the best decision on guilt or innocence following your investigation and the hearing.

Congressional Hearing Format

1. The Hearing will be called to order and the witnesses will be sworn to honesty.

2. The first charge will be presented, and a SPEAKERS LIST will be made for those who wish to speak IN FAVOR of the charge against the defendants.

3. Prosecution witnesses and legal support will speak in favor of the charge and present their case.

4. A SPEAKERS LIST will be made for those who wish to speak AGAINST the charges.

5. Defense witnesses and legal support will speak against the charge and present their case.

6. Congressional Representatives will motion to vote and decide guilt or innocence on that charge.

7. Continue through the next charges.