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American Government: Readings and Cases
ISBN: 9780321005090 | 0321005090
Edition: 13thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson College Div
Pub. Date: 8/1/1998
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Representing both classic and contemporary documents and writings, the selections include essential political documents, major Supreme Court cases, and a wide variety of commentary and analysis by theorists, journalists, and leading political figures. The up-to-date, relevant material stimulates the reader's interest and gives fresh perspectives on how our government works.
| The Setting Of The American System | |
| Constitutional Government | |
| Constitutional Democracy: The Rule of Law | |
| Second Treatise, Of Civil Government | |
| Framing the Constitution: Elitist or Democratic Process? | |
| The Founding Fathers: A Reform Caucus in Action | |
| Framing the Constitution | |
| Limitation of Governmental Power and of Majority Rule | |
| Fed... MORE | |
| Interpreting the Constitution | |
| How Not to Read the Constitution | |
| Federalism | |
| Constitutional Background: National Versus State Power | |
| Federalist 16 | |
| Federalist | |
| The Merits of the Federal System | |
| The Supremacy of National Law | |
| National Power over the States: A Recurring Constitutional Debate | |
| United States vs. Lopez | |
| A Perspective on Federalism: Present and Future | |
| The Federal System | |
| Civil Liberties and Civil Rights | |
| The Nationalization of the Bill of Rights | |
| Freedom of Speech and Press | |
| Liberty of Thought and Discussion | |
| Freedom of Expression: Regulating the Internet | |
| American Civil Liberties Union | |
| Equal Protection of the Laws: School Desegregation | |
| Board of Education of Topeka (1954) | |
| The Judicial Sources of Major Political Controversies Over Civil Liberties and Rights | |
| The establishment Clause and the Issue of School Prayer | |
| The Free Exercise of Religion | |
| City of | |
| The Right to Abortion | |
| Affirmative Action | |
| Adarand Constructors, Inc | |
| Equal Protection, Voting Rights, and Racial Gerrymandering | |
| Shaw | |
| II. Political Parties, Electoral Behavior, And Interest Groups | |
| Political Parties and the Electorate | |
| Constitutional Background | |
| Federalist | |
| E.E. Schattschneider, Party Government | |
| The Party Model of Government | |
| Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System | |
| Perspectives on American Political Parties | |
| Political Parties in Divided Government | |
| Divided We Govern | |
| Functions and Types of Elections | |
| A Theory of Critical Elections | |
| Party Decline and Electoral Decay | |
| Politics By Other Means | |
| Voting Behavior: Rational or Irrational? | |
| Democratic Practice and Democratic Theory | |
| Political Campaigns and the Electorate | |
| The Responsible Electorate | |
| Interest Groups | |
| The Nature and Functions of Interest Groups | |
| The Governmental Process | |
| The End of Liberalism: The Indictment | |
| Pressure Groups | |
| Pressure Group Politics | |
| Waltar Isaacson, Running with the PACs | |
| Money, PACs, and Elections | |
| The Misplaced Obsession with PACs | |
| Regulating Political Campaigns | |
| Campaign Finance Reform | |
| National Governmental Institutions | |
| The Presidency | |
| Constitutional Background: Single versus Plural Executive | |
| Federalist | |
| The Nature of the Presidency: Power and Persuasion | |
| Clinton Rossiter, The Presidency, - Focus of Leadership | |
| Presidential Power | |
| Presidential Politics | |
| Presidential Character and Style | |
| The Presidential Character | |
| The President and the Media | |
| The Press and the President | |
| Presidential Power in Foreign and Domestic Affairs | |
| The Two Presidencies | |
| Presidential Leadership and Political Parties | |
| The Presidency and Political Parties | |
| Presidential Politics and Responsibility | |
| Presidential Lightning Rods: The Politics of Blame Avoidance | |
| The Bureaucracy | |
| Constitutional Background | |
| Constitutional Democracy and Bureaucratic Power | |
| The Political Roots and Consequences of Bureaucracy | |
| The Rise of the Bureaucratic State | |
| Congress | |
| Constitutional Background: Representation of Popular, Group, and National Interests | |
| Federalist 53, 56, 57, 58, 62,63 | |
| Congress and the Washington Political Establishment | |
| Committee Chairmen as Political Entrepreneurs | |
| Congress and the Quest for Power | |
| Congress and the Electoral Connection | |
| Speech to the Electors of Bristol | |
| If, as Ralph Nader Says, Congress is "The Broken Branch," How Come We Love Our Congressmen So Much? | |
| Congress-Bashing for Beginners | |
| Congress: The Electoral Connection | |
| Future Congressional Politics | |
| The New Era of Congressional Policy Making | |
| The Judiciary | |
| Constitutional Background: Judicial Independence and Judicial Review | |
| Federalist | |
| Marbury v. Madison (1803) | |
| Powers and Limitations of the Supreme Court | |
| Judicial Self-Restraint | |
| Judicial Decision Making | |
| How the Supreme Court Arrives at Decisions | |
| Interpreting the Constitution | |
| The Contemporary Debate over Constitutional Interpretation | |
| Justice Sandra Day O''Connor, Constitutional Liberty and the Right to Abortion | |
| Chief Justice | |
| Justice Antonin Scalia, Liberty and Abortion: A Strict Constructionist''s View | |
| The Declaration of Independence | |
| The Constitution of the United States | |
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