American Government: Readings and Cases

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HarperCollins College Publishers, 1996 - Law - 505 pages

Contents

John Locke
4
Elitist or Democratic Process?
10
Charles A Beard
31
Limitation of Governmental Power and of Majority Rule
41
Interpreting the Constitution
46
Federalist 47 48 and
51
Alexander Hamilton 55
55
Alexis de Tocqueville
63
Money PACs and Elections
258
Part Three
267
Clinton Rossiter
273
Presidential Politics
281
Presidential Character and Style
290
The President and the Media
301
Presidential Leadership and Political Parties
312
The Presidency in Divided Government
320

The Supremacy of National
72
Present and Future
77
Alice M Rivlin
94
CHAPTER 3
103
Freedom of Speech and Press
112
The Skokie Case
118
Smith v Collin 1978
126
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1955
132
The Right to Abortion
143
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
154
Equal Protection Voting Rights and Racial
177
Part
183
E E Schattschneider
191
Political Parties in Divided Government
193
Functions and Types of Elections
200
Party Decline and Electoral Decay
211
Rational or Irrational?
218
Political Campaigns and the Electorate
226
Interest Groups
231
Theodore J Lowi
239
Pressure Group Politics
245
Thomas Cronin
328
Peter Woll
334
The Courts and Administrative Agencies
346
Congress
357
Congress and the Washington Political Establishment
366
Lawrence C Dodd
375
Congress and the Media
386
Congress and the Electoral Connection
394
Nelson W Polsby
402
Richard Morin and David S Broder
409
Richard F Fenno Jr
419
Norman Ornstein
425
Interpreting Legislative
432
CHAPTER 9
439
Powers and Limitations of the Supreme Court
447
Judicial Decision Making
454
The Contemporary Debate over Constitutional
463
William J Brennan Jr
470
APPENDIX 1
481
APPENDIX 2
487
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