POLI 100 Introduction to American Government and Politics
This is an introductory course, intended primarily for students who
have
no prior background in political science. It is designed to serve
both
as a first political science course for prospective majors and as a
survey
and general education course for non-majors.
I will teach POLI 100 0101 and 0201
in Spring 2008. The syllabus will be essentially identical with
the syllabus for Fall 2007 (see link below).
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Guide
to Third Midterm Test and Final Exam
Grades
For Third Midterm
Test
Grades
for Second
Writing Assigment, Final Exam, and Course
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Course Syllabus (with hyperlinks to Course
Pack Readings) [Fall 2007]
Course
Syllabus [PDF] [Fall 2007]
K&J:
2nd => 3rd editions
Guide to Midterm Tests
Instructions for Writing Assignments
Questions for First Writing Assignment
Questions
for Second Writing Assignment
Guide to
Final Exam
Bulletin
Board (Q & A)
Logic of American Politics
home page
The
Declaration of Independence
The
Articles of Confederation
James
Madison's Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention
The
Constitution of the United States (National Archives)
Celebrating
Constitution Day (September 17, 2005) from CQ Press in Context
The
Federalist
Papers
The Founders'
Constitution
The
U.S. Constitution (including all amendments)
UMBC Political
Science Department
Instructor's
Homepage (bio, research, other courses, etc.)
Study Guides (Topics are numbered by class day;
PPT =
PowerPoint slides)
To review PowerPoint slides used in class, click on [PPT]
following the topic
name. Note: you must
have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer
to view these slides.
No
Topic #1
Overview of Course
No Topic
#2 NO CLASS -- Instructor attending conference
Topic #3
The Logic of
Anarchy and Government
[PPT]
Topic
#4 Philosophical
Origins of American Government [PPT]
Topic
#5 The
Declaration of
Independence [PPT]
Topic
#6 The
Articles of
Confederation [PPT]
Topic
#7 Framing
the
Constitution [PPT]
Topic
#8 Ratifying
the
Constitution [PPT]
Topic
#9 Democracy
and the
Constitution [Summary and
Extension]
Topic
#10 The
Political Theory of
the Constitution [PPT]
Topic
#11 Amending the
Constitution [PPT]
[Summary and Extension]
Topic
#12 The Origins
of Judicial Review [PPT]
Topic
#13 The Judical
Branch: Structure
and Process [PPT]
Topic
#14 The Judical
Branch:
Appointments, Tenure, and
Philosophies [PPT]
Topic
#15 American
Federalism [Enhanced Study Guide]
No Topic #16
FIRST
TEST
Topic
#17 Jucial Review:
Federalism and
Economic Regulation [PPT]
Topic
#18 Judicial
Review: Civil Liberties [PPT]
Topic
#19
Judicial Review: The 14th
Amendment and
Nationalization of the Bill of
Rights [PPT]
Topic
#20 Judicial
Review: Civil Rights [PPT]
Topic
#21 Congress as
a
Representative Assembly: The
Concept
of Representation [PPT]
No Topic #22 NO CLASS --
Instructor out-of-town
Topic
#23 Congress
as a
Representative Assemby: Apportionment,
Election Methods, and Districting [PPT]
Topic
#24 Congress as
a Legislative
Assembly: Organization
and
Procedures [PPT]
Topic #25
Congress as a Representative and Legislative
Assembly [PPT]
Topic
#26 The
Executive Branch: The
Office of President [PPT]
Topic
#27 The Electoral
College and
the Origins of
Political
Parties [PPT]
Topic
#28
Presidential Nominations and Elections
[PPT]
No Topic #29 SECOND
TEST
Topic #30
The Executive Branch: Presidential Leadership
[PPT]
Topic
#31 The
Executive Branch:
Bureaucracy [Enhanced Study Guide]
Topic
#32 American
Political Culture [Enhanced Study Guide]
Topic
#33 Survey
Research,
Public
Opinion, and the Media [PPT]
Topic
#34 Public
Opinion: Consensus
and Conflict [PPT]
Topic
#35 Public
Opinion:
Partisanship and Ideology [PPT]
Topic
#36 Political
Participation,
Opinions, and Democracy [PPT]
Topic
#37 Interest
Groups
[PPT]
Topic
#38
Suffrage, Voting
Turnout, and
Political Participation [PPT]
Topic
#39 Campaigns and
Elections
[PPT]
Topic
#40 The American
Party Systems
[PPT]
Topic
#41
Contemporary
Party
Politics [PPT]
No
Topic #42 CATCH-UP
No Topic #43
THIRD
TEST
Other Handouts
Democracy
and the Constitution
Amending
the Constitution
Current Events
Washington Post
On Politics
New York Times
on
the Web (requires free registration)
CNN All Politics
PBS NewsHour
C-SPAN
BBC World Service
The Times (London)
U.S. Government
U.S. Congress
House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
The
White House
U.S. Courts
U.S.
Supreme Court
Supplementary Documents (Additional documents are
available
at the Logic of American Politics home page.)
Topic #
#3 The Prisoner's Dilemma
#4 The
Levianthan by Thomas Hobbes (1660)
#4 Frontispiece
illustration for Leviathan
#4 Second
Treatise
of Government by John Locke (1690)
#5 Declaration and
Resolves
(Continental Congress, 1774)
#5 The Causes and
Necessity
of Taking Up Arms (Continental Congress, 1775)
#5 The
Declaration of Independence Homepage (National Archives)
#5 Successive
drafts
of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
#6 Articles
of Confederation (1781-1788)
#7 Annapolis
Convention (1786)
#7 Virginia Plan (1787)
#7 New
Jersey Plan (1787)
#7 Connecticut
Compromise (1787)
#7 Madison's
Notes
on the Federal Convention (1787)
#7 First Draft
of
the U.S. Constitution (Report of the Committee of Detail, August 6,
1787)
#7 Penultimate
Draft of the U.S. Constitution (Report of the Committee on Style,
September
12, 1787)
#8 Federalist
Papers
(1788)
#8 Anti-Federalist Papers
(1788)
#8 James
Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance Again Religious Assessments (1785)
#8 The
Virginia
Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (Thomas Jefferson, 1786)
#9 Charles
Beard's,
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the U.S. (1913)
#10
James
Madison's Letter to Thomas Jefferson regarding the proposed Bill of
Rights
(October 17,1788)
#10 James
Madison, Federalist 10 [highlighted]
#10
James Madison, Federalist 51
[highlighted]
#11 Thomas
Jefferson's
Letter to James Madison, "The Earth Belongs to the Living" (September
6,
1789)
#11 The
Amendment
Process and Failed Constitutional Amendments
#11 Equal
Rights Amendment (1972, failed ratification)
#12 Hamilton,
Federalist 78 [highlighted]
#12 Judiciary
Act of 1789
#12 Marbury
v. Madison (1803)
#13 U.S. Federal
District Courts and Circuit Courts of Appeal
#17 McCulloch
v. Maryland (1819)
#17 Gibbons v.
Ogden
(1924)
#17 Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
#17 National
Labor Relations Act (1935)
#17 Social Security Act (1935)
#18 On Liberty
(complete pamphlet) by John Stuart Mill (1859)
#18 Schenck v.
United
States (1919)
#18 Dennis
v. United States (1951)
#18 Yates v. U.S. (1957)
#18 Texas
v. Johnson (1989)
#19 Clarence
Earl Gideon's petition for a writ of
certiorari
#19 Gitlow
v. New York (1925)
#19 Near
v. Minnesota (1931)
#19 Powell
v. Alabama (1932)
#19 Escobedo
v. Illinois (1964)
#19 Miranda
v. Arizona (1966)
#19 Griswold
v. Connecticut (1965)
#19 Roe
v. Wade (1973)
#20 The
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
#20 Dred Scott v. Sanford
[including
concurring and dissenting opinions] (1857)
#20 Lincoln-Douglas
Debates (1858)
#20 Abraham
Lincoln's Cooper Union Address (1860)
#20 Confederate
Constitution
(1861)
#20 Emancipation
Proclamation (1863)
#20 Plessy
v. Ferguson (1896)
#20 Smith
v. Allwright (1944)
#20 Civil
Rights Acts (overview)
#20 Civil
Rights Act (1964)
#20 Voting
Rights Act (1965)
#20 Thornburg
v. Gingles (1986)
#20 Sweatt
v. Painter (1950)
#23 Congressional
Apportionment (U.S. Census Bureau)
#23 The Original Gerrymander (1812)
#23 The
Gerry-mander
-- the original cartoon (1812)
#23 Baker
v. Carr (1962)
#23 Wesberry
v. Sanders (1964)
#23 Maryland
Congressional Districts (2002)
#23 Gerry's
Gallery
#25 Contract
With America (1994)
#26 Gulf
of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
#26 War
Powers Act (1973)
#26 Youngstown
Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)
#26 United
States v. Nixon (1974)
#30 The Prince by
Machiavelli
(1515)
#31 Pendleton
Act (1883)
#31 Civil
Service Reform act (1978)
#32 Democracy
in
America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)
#40 People's
Party (Populist) Platform (1896)
#41 "Cross of Gold" speech
of
William Jennings Bryan (1896)
Links and Resources for Political Research
U.S. Supreme Court
Multimedia Database
Political Links (UMBC
Political
Science)
Resources for
Political
Science Research on Voting and Elections
Information
and
Research on Presidential Elections (for POLI 423
-- includes general resources)
Albin O. Kuhn (UMBC) Library home
page