Reflection Paper Eight-Americas Most Gerrymandered Congressional Districts

"This speaks to the notion that the point of gerrymandering isn't to draw yourself a safe seat but to put your opponents in safe seats by cramming all of their supporters into a small number of districts."

This quote speaks about the idea of gerrymandering. Republican and democratic parties ( more so republican) are corrupting the system by drawing voting districts to favor their party. Although they are allowing the other party a guaranteed seat by drawing them small districts full of democratic voters, they are giving themselves an advantage. The party that is gerrymandering draws a larger district for themselves, however this district always benefits them, whether its full of republican voters or leaving out people that cant vote (such as felons) they are guaranteeing themselves a a spot in the house.

Gerrymandering is an ongoing problem. It allows representatives to choose what districts they want depriving voters, and the opponent of a fair vote. In turn denying the voters, and representatives  a true representation of districts.

Reflection Paper Seven-Citizenship and Social Class-Marshall

“Civil rights were indispensable to a competitive market economy. Civil rights gave to each man, as part of his individual status, the power to engage as an independent unit in the economic struggle and made it possible to deny to him social protection on the grounds that he was quipped with the means to protect himself”

I believe that Marshall meant that Civil rights was originally given to men so that they could be independent. However this mean independent in every way to include the struggle in the economic aspect, as well as social. In providing civil rights man could be denied protection from the struggles that come from the social and economic environment because he was provided with "equal" opportunity to take care of him/herself.

I believe that this still plays a major role. That many still struggle with jobs, health care, and poverty yet since we have civil rights the government feels as if we can lay no blame on them. It is up to us to sink or swim. They do offer things such as Obama Care, however this still only benefits some , not all.