American government : readings and cases / edited by] Peter Woll. [print]

Includes bibliographical references.

Section I. The setting of the American system

1. Constitutional Government: Second Treatise, Of Civil Government/John Locke -- The Founding Fathers: A Reform Caucus in Action/John P. Roche -- Framing the Constitution/Charles A. Beard -- Federalist 47, 48, 51/James Madison -- How Not to Read the Constitution/Laurence H. Tribe and Michael C. Dorf

2. Federalism: Federalist 16, 17/Alexander Hamilton -- Federalist 44/James Madison -- Federalist 39/James Madison -- The Merits of the Federal System/James Bryce -- McCulloch volume Maryland, 4 Wheaton 316 (1819) -- United States volume Morrison (2000) -- The Federal System/Morton Grodzins -- A Republic Subverted/David Broder

3. Civil Liberties and Civil Rights: Antifederalist Paper No. 84 On the Lack of a Bill of Rights -- Before the House of Representatives in 1789 Proposing Amendments to Add a Bill of Rights to the Constitution/James Madison -- Gideon volume Wainwright 372 U.S. 335 (1963) -- The Need to Maintain a Free Marketplace of Ideas/Oliver Wendall Holmes -- New York Times volume Sullivan 376 U.S 254 (1964) -- Plessy volume Ferguson 163 U.S. 537 (1896) -- Brown volume Board of Education of Topeka 347 U.S. 483 (1954) -- Brown volume Board of Education of Topeka 349 U.S. 294 (1955) -- Engel volume Vitale 370 U.S. 421 (1962) -- Zelman volume Simmon-Harris Supreme Court of the United States (2002) -- Roe volume Wade 410 U.S. 113 (1973) -- Adarand Constructors, Incorporated volume Pena 515 U.S. 200 ( 1995),

Section II. Political parties, electorial behavior, and interest groups

4. Political Parties and the Electorate: Federalist 10/James Madison -- Party Government/E. E. Schattschneider -- California Democratic Party and others V. Jones, Secretary of State of California, and othersSupreme Court of the United States (2000) -- Toward a More Responsible Two Party System/Report of the Committee of Political Parties, American Political Science Association -- Perspectives on American Political Parties/Martin P. Wattenberg -- Divided We Govern/David R. Mayhew -- A Theory of Critical Elections/V.O. Key, Jr. -- Politics by Other Means/Benjamin Ginsberg and Martin Shefter -- Democratic Practice and Democratic Theory/Bernard R. Berelson, Paul F. Lazarsfeld, and William N. McPhee -- The Responsible Electorate/V.O. Key, Jr. -- Buckley V. Vaelo 263 424 U.S. (1976) -- Federal Election Commission volume Colorado Republican Federal Campagin Committee (Colorado II) -- Senator Mitch McConnell, and others volume Federal Election Commission -- Myths and Realities about the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002/Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein -- Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee volume Federal Election Commission 518 U.S. 604 (1996) .

5. Interest Groups: Madison's Dilemma/Jeffrey M. Berry -- The Governmental Process/David B. Truman -- The End of Liberalism: The Indictment/Theodore J. Lowi -- Interest Groups and the American Political System/Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox -- The Misplaced Obsession with PennsylvaniaCs/Larry J. Sabato

6. The Presidency: Federalist 70/Alexander Hamilton -- The Presidency-Focus of Leadership/Clinton Rossiter -- Presidential Power/Richard E. Neustadt -- Presidential Paradoxes/Thomas E. Cronin and Michael A. Genovese -- The Presidential Character/James David Barber -- Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company volume Sawyer 343 U.S. 579 (1952) -- United States volume Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation 343 U.S. 304 (1936) -- The Two Presidencies/Aaron Wildavsky -- The Presidency and Political Parties/Sidney M. Milkis -- American Presidential Elections: The Last One and the Next One/Nelson W. Polsby

7. The Bureaucracy: Constitutional Democracy and Bureaucratic Power/Peter Woll -- The Rise of the Bureaucratic State/James Q. Wilson

8. Congress: Federalist 53, 56, 57, 58, 62, 63/James Madison -- The Rise of the Washington Establishment/Morris P. Fiorina -- Congress and the Quest for Power/Lawrence C. Dodd -- Media Power and Congressional Power/Timothy E. Cook -- Speech to the Electors of Bristol/Edmund Burke -- If, As Ralph Nader Says, Congress Is g2sThe Broken Branch,g3s How Come We Love Our Congressmen So Much?/Richard F. Fenno, Jr. -- Congress-Bashing for Beginners/Nelson W. Polsby -- Congress: The Electoral Connection/David R. Mayhew -- Home Style and Washington Career/Richard F. Fenno, Jr.

9. The Judiciary: Federalist 78/Alexander Hamilton -- Marbury volume Madison 1 Cranch 137 (1803) -- Judicial Self-Restraint/John P. Roche -- Bush volume Gore United States Supreme Court (2000) -- How the Supreme Court Arrives at Decisions/William J. Brennan, Jr. -- Constitutional Liberty and the Right to Abortion/Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- Liberty, Privacy, and the Right to Abortion/Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist -- Liberty and Abortion: A Strict Constructionist's View/Justice Antonin Scalia.

With an even stronger focus on the major cases and readings that define our thinking about American government and politics, the Fifteenth Editionputs students directly in touch with the great authors and political leaders who have shaped and are shaping American government. As it has since its first edition, this reader provides a strong, balanced blend of classics that illustrate and amplify important concepts in American government, along with extremely current readings and cases drawn from today's literature. --

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