- ISBN: 9780155078765 | 0155078763
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/3/1999
CLASSICS IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT is a readable and relatively brief collection of readings in American government.
| SECTION I: THE CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK | |
| 1. The Mayflower Compact | |
| 2. The First American Feminist, Abigail Adams | |
| 3. The Declaration of Independence | |
| 4. The Constitution of the United States | |
| 5. Explaining the Separation of Powers, James Madison | |
| 6. Controlling Tyrannical Majorities, Alexis de Tocqueville | |
| 7. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, Charles A | |
| Beard | |
| 8. An African-American's Perspective on the Constitution, Thurgood Marshall | |
| Section I Review Questions | |
| SECTION II: FEDERALISM | |
| 9. Defending A Republican Form of Government, James Madison | |
| 10. The "Necessary and Proper" Clause, McCulloch v | |
| Maryland | |
| 11. Interpreting the "Commerce" Clause, Gibbons v | |
| Ogden | |
| 12. Dual Federalism, James Bryce | |
| 13. The "Marble Cake" Theory of Federalism, Mortin Grodzins | |
| Section II Review Questions | |
| SECTION III: CIVIL LIBERTIES | |
| 14. Incorporation of the First Amendment, Gitlow v | |
| New York | |
| 15. Extending the Right to Counsel to the State Courts, Gideon v | |
| Wainwright | |
| 16. Custodial Interrogations, Miranda v | |
| Arizona | |
| 17. Extending the Exclusionary Rule to the States' Courts, Mapp v | |
| Ohio | |
| 18. The Good Faith Exception, Massachusetts v | |
| Shepard | |
| 19. Right to Privacy, Griswold v | |
| Connecticut | |
| 20. Legalizing Abortion, Roe v | |
| Wade | |
| 21. State Regulation of Abortion, Webster v | |
| Reproductive Health Services | |
| 22. Burning the American Flag, Texas v | |
| Johnson | |
| Section III Review Questions | |
| SECTION IV: CIVIL RIGHTS | |
| 23. Challenging the Status Quo, Frederick Douglas | |
| 24. Separate But Equal Facilities, Plessy v | |
| Ferguson | |
| 25. Desegregating the Schools, Brown v | |
| Board of Education | |
| 26. Reapportionment and Equal Representation, Baker v | |
| Carr | |
| 27. Race in the 1990s, Cornel West | |
| Section IV Review Questions | |
| SECTION V: PUBLIC OPINION | |
| 28. The Pseudo-Environment of Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann | |
| 29. Polling the Public, George Gallup | |
| 30. What Do Americans Really Believe?, James W | |
| Prothro and Charles M | |
| Grigg | |
| 31. Leaders Mold and Influence Public Opinion, V | |
| O | |
| Key, Jr | |
| 32. The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Richard Hofstader | |
| Section V Review Questions | |
| SECTION VI: POLITICAL PARTIES | |
| 33. Urban Political Machines, Harold Gosnell | |
| 34. Responsible Party Government, The American Political Science Association | |
| 35. The Decline of Responsible Party Government, Morris Fiorina | |
| 36. Electoral Bias of the Two-Party System, Maurice Duverger | |
| 37. The Socialization of Conflict, E | |
| E | |
| Schattschneider | |
| 38. The Emerging Republican Majority, Kevin Phillips | |
| Section VI Review Questions | |
| SECTION VII: ELECTIONS AND VOTERS | |
| 39. Women and the Right to Vote, Susan B | |
| Anthony | |
| 40. Holding Your District, George Washington Plunkitt | |
| 41. Selling Candidates as Products, Joe McGinniss | |
| 42. Critical Realigning Elections, Walter Dean Burnham | |
| 43. Dirty Politics, Kathleen Hall Jamieson | |
| Section VII Review Questions | |
| SECTION VIII: LOBBYISTS AND INTEREST GROUPS | |
| 44.Controlling Factions, James Madison | |
| 45. The Concurrnet Majority, John C | |
| Calhoun | |
| 46. Defending Pluralist Politics, David B | |
| Truman | |
| 47. Attacking Pluralist Politics, Theodore J | |
| Lowi | |
| Section VIII Review Questions | |
| SECTION IX: MASS MEDIA | |
| 48. Language and Politics, George Orwell | |
| 49. The Kennedy-Nixon TV Debates, Theodore H | |
| White | |
| 50. Pseudo-Events, Daniel Boorstin | |
| 51. Political Symbols, Murray Edelman | |
| Section IX Review Questions | |
| SECTION X: THE CONGRESS | |
| 52. Representing the Nation, Edmund Burke | |
| 53. The Framers' View of Representation, James Madison | |
| 54. Constituency Representation, Richard F | |
| Fenno | |
| 55. Popular Congressman and Unpopular Congress, Glenn R | |
| Parker and Roger H | |
| Davidson | |
| 56. How Congress Saved Chrysler, Tip O'Neill | |
| Section X Review Questions | |
| SECTION XI: THE PRESIDENCY | |
| 57. Creating the Presidency, Alexander Hamilton | |
| 58. The Prerogative Theory of the Presidency, Abraham Lincoln | |
| 59. The Stewardship Theory of the Presidency, Theodore Roosevelt | |
| 60. The Literalist Theory of the Presidency, William Howard Taft | |
| 61. The Presidential Power to Persuade, Richard Neustadt | |
| 62. The Two Presidencies, Aaron Wildavsky | |
| 63. Executive Privilege, United States v | |
| Nixon | |
| 64. Suing the President, William Jefferson Clinton v | |
| Paula Corbin Jones | |
| Section XI Review Question | |
| SECTION XII: THE SUPREME COURT | |
| 65. Defending the Judiciary, Alexander Hamilton | |
| 66. Establishing Judicial Review, Marbury v | |
| Madison | |
| 67. Defining the Court's Jurisdiction, Ashwander v | |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | |
| 68. The Democratic Character of Judicial Review, Eugene Rostow | |
| 69. The Least Dangerous Branch Indeed, Alexander M | |
| Bickel | |
| Section XII Review Questions | |
| SECTION XIII: THE BUREAUCRACY | |
| 70. The Nature of Bureaucracy, Max Weber | |
| 71. Bureaucracy and the Public Interest, Pendleton Herring | |
| 72. Incompetence in Bureaucracy, Lawrence J | |
| Peter and Raymond Hull | |
| 73. Street-Level Bureaucrats, Michael Lipsky | |
| 74. Police Bureaucrats and Crime, James Q | |
| Wilson and George L | |
| Kelling | |
| 75. The Future of Bureaucracy, Al Gore | |
| Section XIII Review Questions |
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