You will want to think about how you want to organize your paper as you revise it into a research paper style. You have some good information, but you need to reorganize it, revise it, and expand on it.
- Write an introduction centered around the topic and what you will cover in your paper. As written, your paper argues that Congress has exceeded its authority under the Commerce Clause and in the end gives various examples.
- Provide background about the issue you are discussing – Commerce Clause and congressional expansion. This is not the literature review – instead it is just background information.
- Then create a literature review section (see above). Start big (about the constitutional provision at issue), narrow to the expansion of congressional use of the clause over the years (you will of necessity cover preemption to some degree as that is how Congress expands its power under the clause), narrow more as needed and then eventually narrowing it down to your question/issue of the question of whether Congress has exceeded its authority. You should be able to pick up additional content and references in this section. Remember that in your literature review you are setting out what the scholars say. This is not the section where you describe what you think. That is in the next section.
- Then you move to your analysis or discussion section. This is where you analyze and discuss what you think about the topic and why. Remember to bring in applicable references to support what you are arguing. In other words, set out your view of the situation and why you think that, supporting it with references. You will use much of the information in your paper in this part of the paper.
- Finally, conclude your paper with a conclusion section where you summarize your paper.
