Consider the following questions:
1) Why is a bureaucracy necessary to the functioning of government?
2) Why do many people have negative impressions of the US federal bureaucracy?
3) How does the Supreme Court decided to take up a case?
4) Discuss a Supreme Court case from within the past year (for information on the Supreme Court, go to one of these or another website about the Supreme Court : https://supremecourtreview.com/; or the SCOTUS Blog: https://www.scotusblog.com/; or the New York Times.
Reading: Barbour and Wright, Chapters 11 and 12 .