American Government : Readings and Cases

by Woll, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780321473141
• ISBN10: 0321473140
• Edition: 17th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-08
• Publisher: Pearson Higher Education

Summary

With an even stronger focus on the U.S. Constitution in the post 9/11 world, the Seventeeth Edition of this best-selling reader in American government puts students directly in touch with the great authors and political leaders who have shapedand are shapingAmerican government. The bestselling reader for over 40 years, this anthology continues to provide a strong, balanced blend of classic selections that illustrate and amplify important concepts in American government, along with extremely current readings and cases drawn from today's literature.

Table of Contents

The Setting Of The American System

Selections new to this edition are indicated with an asterisk

Constitutional Government

Second Treatise, Of Civil Government

The Founding Fathers: A Reform Caucus in Action

Beard,Framing the Constitution

Federalist 47, 48, 51

How Not to Read the Constitution

Federalism

Alexander Hamilton,Federalist 16, 17

The Anti-Federalist Papers No. 17

Federalist 44

Federalist 45

Federalist 39

The Merits of the Federal System

4 Wheaton 316 (1819)

9 Wheaton 1 (1824)

United States v. Morrison (2000)

U.S. Supreme Court (2005)

A Republic Subverted

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

Antifederalist Paper No. 84 On the Lack of a Bill of Rights

Speech Before the House of Representatives in 1789 Proposing Amendments to Add a Bill of Rights to the Constitution

372 U.S. 335 (1963)

The Need to Maintain a Free Marketplace of Ideas

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan 376 U.S 254 (1964)

163 U.S. 537 (1896)

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 347 U.S. 483 (1954)

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 349 U.S. 294 (1955)

370 U.S. 421 (1962)

The Right to Privacy

Griswold v. Connecticut,381 U.S. 479 (1965)

410 U.S. 113 (1973)

University of California Board of Regents

UniversitU v. Bakke 438 U.S. 265 (1978)

Political Parties, Electoral Behavior, And Interest Groups

Political Parties and the Electorate

Federalist 10

E. E. Schattschneider,Party Government

Report of the Committee of Political Parties, American Political Science Association,Toward More Responsible Two Party System

Constitutional and Political Requirements for a Responsible Two-Party System

Divided We Govern

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