American Government Readings and Cases

by Woll, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780321329509
• ISBN10: 0321329503
• Edition: 16th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-04
• Publisher: Pearson Higher Education

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xix
Acknowledgments	xxii
PART ONE The Setting of the American System	1	(172)
Constitutional Government	3	(47)
Constitutional Democracy: The Rule of Law	3	(7)
Second Treatise, Of Civil Government	4	(6)
John Locke
Framing the Constitution: Elitist or Democratic Process?	10	(31)
The Founding Fathers: A Reform Caucus in Action	10	(21)
John P. Roche
Framing the Constitution	31	(10)
Charles A. Beard
Limitation of Governmental Power and of Majority Rule	41	(4)
Federalist 47, 48, 51	41	(4)
James Madison
Interpreting the Constitution	45	(5)
How Not to Read the Constitution	47	(3)
Laurence H. Tribe
Michael C. Dorf
Federalism	50	(55)
Constitutional Background: National Versus State Power	51	(23)
Federalist 16, 17	53	(4)
Alexander Hamilton
The Anti-Federalist Papers No. 17	57	(3)
Federalist 44	60	(3)
James Madison
Federalist 45	63	(3)
James Madison
Federalist 39	66	(5)
James Madison
The Merits of the Federal System	71	(3)
James Bryce
Implied Powers and the Supremacy of National Law	74	(9)
4 Wheaton 316 (1819) McCulloch v. Maryland	74	(4)
9 Wheaton 1 (1824) Gibbons v. Ogden	78	(5)
A Perspective on Federalism: Present and Future	83	(5)
The Federal System	84	(4)
Morton Grodzins
State Politics and Constitutional Government	88	(7)
A Republic Subverted	89	(6)
David Broder
National Power over the States: A Recurring Constitutional Debate	95	(10)
529 U.S. 59 (2000) United States v. Morrison	99	(6)
Civil Liberties and Civil Rights	105	(68)
Constitutional Background	105	(7)
Anti-Federalist Paper No. 84 On the Lack of a Bill of Rights	106	(2)
Speech Before the House of Representatives in 1789 Proposing Amendments to Add a Bill of Rights to the Constitution	108	(4)
James Madison
The Nationalization of the Bill of Rights	112	(4)
Barron v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore 32 U.S. 243 (1833)	113	(3)
The Fourteenth Amendment	116	(8)
Gideon v. Wainwright 372 U.S. 335 (1963)	119	(5)
Freedom of Speech and Press	124	(6)
The Need to Maintain a Free Marketplace of Ideas Abrams v. United States 250 U.S. 616 (1919)	126	(4)
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Expanding the Boundaries of Permissible Criticism of Government and Public Officials	130	(6)
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan 376 U.S. 254 (1964)	130	(6)
Equal Protection of the Laws: School Desegregation	136	(9)
Plessy v. Ferguson 163 U.S. 537 (1896)	136	(3)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 347 U.S. 483 (1954)	139	(3)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 349 U.S. 294 (1955)	142	(3)
The Judicial Sources of Major Political Controversies over Civil Liberties and Rights	145	(1)
The Establishment Clause and the Issue of School Prayer	146	(8)
Engel v. Vitale 370 U.S. 421 (1962)	147	(7)
School Vouchers and the Establishment Clause	154	(2)
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris Supreme Court of the United States (2002)	154	(2)
The Right to Abortion	156	(11)
Roe v. Wade 410 U.S. 113 (1973)	157	(10)
Affirmative Action	167	(6)
Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena 515 U.S. 200 (1995)	168	(5)
PART TWO Political Parties, Electoral Behavior, and Interest Groups	173	(112)
Political Parties and the Electorate	175	(78)
Constitutional Background	175	(8)
Federalist 10	176	(5)
James Madison
Party Government	181	(2)
E. E. Schattschneider
Constitutional Protection of Parties	183	(2)
California Democratic Party et al. v. Jones, Secretary of State of California, et al. Supreme Court of the United States (2000)	184	(1)
The Party Model of Government	185	(8)
Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System	187	(4)
Perspectives on American Political Parties	191	(2)
Martin P. Wattenberg
Political Parties in Divided Government	193	(8)
Divided We Govern	194	(7)
David R. Mayhew
Functions and Types of Elections	201	(11)
A Theory of Critical Elections	202	(10)
V. O. Key, Jr.
Party Decline and Electoral Decay	212	(6)
Politics by Other Means	212	(6)
Benjamin Ginsberg
Martin Shefter
Voting Behavior: Rational or Irrational?	218	(8)
Democratic Practice and Democratic Theory	219	(7)
Bernard R. Berelson
Paul F. Lazarsfeld
William N. McPhee
Political Campaigns and the Electorate	226	(4)
The Responsible Electorate	226	(4)
V. O. Key, Jr.
Political Parties and Campaign Finance: Constitutional Issues Regulating Political Campaigns	230	(6)
Buckley v. Valeo 424 U.S. 1 (1976)	231	(5)
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002	236	(11)
McConnell v. Federal Election Commission United States Supreme Court (2003)	236	(6)
Unfree Speech: The Future of Regulatory ``Reform''	242	(5)
Bradley A. Smith
A Perspective on the Act	247	(6)
Myths and Realities About The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002	247	(6)
Thomas E. Mann
Norman J. Ornstein
Interest Groups	253	(32)
Constitutional Background	253	(6)
Madison's Dilemma	254	(5)
Jeffrey M. Berry
The Nature and Functions of Interest Groups	259	(14)
The Governmental Process	260	(6)
David B. Truman
The Theory of Countervailing Power	266	(4)
John Kenneth Galbraith
The End of Liberalism: The Indictment	270	(3)
Theodore J. Lowi
How American Government and Politics Enhance Interest Group Power	273	(4)
Interest Groups and the American Political System	274	(3)
Mark J. Rozell
Clyde Wilcox
Money, PACs, and Elections	277	(8)
The Misplaced Obsession with PACs	278	(7)
Larry J. Sabato
PART THREE National Government Institutions	285	(181)
The Presidency	287	(63)
Constitutional Background: Single Versus Plural Executive	287	(3)
Federalist 70	288	(2)
Alexander Hamilton
The Nature of the Presidency: Power, Persuasion, and Paradoxes	290	(12)
The Presidency---Focus of Leadership	291	(5)
Clinton Rossiter
Presidential Power	296	(4)
Richard E. Neustadt
Presidential Paradoxes	300	(2)
Thomas E. Cronin
Michael A. Genovese
Presidential Politics	302	(1)
Presidential Character and Style	303	(10)
The Presidential Character	303	(10)
James David Barber
Presidential Leadership and Political Parties	313	(14)
The Presidency and Political Parties	313	(14)
Sidney M. Milkis
Presidential Elections	327	(4)
How to Run for President	327	(4)
David Brooks
The Constitutional Presidency and Emergency Powers	331	(7)
Ex Parte Merryman (April, 1861)	332	(2)
Ex Parte Milligan 71 U.S. 2 (1866)	334	(4)
Ex Parte Quirin (1942) as a Precedent for Military Tribunals to Try Suspected Terrorists	338	(12)
A Mixed Precedent for Military Tribunals	339	(3)
Tony Mauro
Ex Parte Quirin 317 U.S. 1 (1942)	342	(3)
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld United States Supreme Court (2004)	345	(5)
The Bureaucracy	350	(14)
Constitutional Background	350	(5)
Constitutional Democracy and Bureaucratic Power	351	(4)
Peter Woll
The Political Roots and Consequences of Bureaucracy	355	(9)
The Rise of the Bureaucratic State	356	(8)
James Q. Wilson
Congress	364	(62)
Constitutional Background: Representation of Popular, Group, and National Interests	364	(8)
Federalist 53, 56, 57, 58, 62, 63	365	(7)
James Madison
Congress and the Washington Political Establishment: Congress Emerges as a Professional Body Shaped by Reelection and Internal Power Incentives	372	(13)
Congressional Government	373	(5)
Woodrow Wilson
The Rise of the Washington Establishment	378	(7)
Morris P. Fiorina
Committee Chairmen as Political Entrepreneurs	385	(12)
Congress and the Quest for Power	386	(11)
Lawrence C. Dodd
Congress and the Electoral Connection	397	(29)
Speech to the Electors of Bristol	398	(3)
Edmund Burke
If, as Ralph Nader Says, Congress Is ``The Broken Branch,'' How Come We Love Our Congressmen So Much?	401	(7)
Richard F. Fenno, Jr.
Congress-Bashing for Beginners	408	(7)
Nelson W. Polsby
Congress: The Electoral Connection	415	(5)
David R. Mayhew
Home Style and Washington Career	420	(6)
Richard F. Fenno, Jr.
The Judiciary	426	(40)
Constitutional Background: Judicial Independence and Judicial Review	426	(9)
Federalist 78	427	(5)
Alexander Hamilton
Marbury v. Madison I Cranch 137 (1803)	432	(3)
Powers and Limitations of the Supreme Court	435	(7)
Judicial Self-Restraint	436	(6)
John P. Roche
A Case Study of Judicial Self-Restraint: The Pledge of Allegiance Case and the First Amendment's Establishment Clause	442	(1)
The Use of the Standing Doctrine as Procedural Self-Restraint: A Case Study	442	(5)
[The Pledge of Allegiance Case] Elk Grove Unified School District et al. v. Newdow et al.	443	(4)
Judicial Decision Making	447	(8)
How the Supreme Court Arrives at Decisions	448	(7)
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Interpreting the Constitution	455	(1)
The Contemporary Debate over Constitutional Interpretation	456	(10)
Constitutional Liberty and the Right to Abortion	457	(5)
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Liberty, Privacy, and the Right to Abortion	462	(1)
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist
Liberty and Abortion: A Strict Constructionist's View	463	(3)
Justice Antonin Scalia
Appendix 1 The Declaration of Independence	466	(4)
Appendix 2 The Constitution of the United States	470	(19)
Credits	489