Classics in American Government

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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