Part one of term paper
Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers illustrated, in American Exceptionalism: The Politics of Fragmentation, that although collective action is the most effective means of being heard, our country has become structured to prevent this from happening. The nation has been fragmented in several different ways on many different levels over the coarse of ...

Part two of term paper
... states their own rights to govern, instead of only having one centralized nation government. "… [T]he clear effect of constitutional fragmentation has… been to limit the potential for political cooperation among people of ordinary means…" This shows how the "founding federalist" believed the common person should not be part of political actions. On one hand you have the constitution fragmenting the government. On the other hand you have the constitution separating people fro ...