Weekly Readings Semester One

Week Sixteen Readings  12/12-12/23
Sabado and O'Connor Chapters 15-16.  Post tests due Jan. 3

Week Fourteen Reading 11/28-12/2
 Sabado and O'Connor Chapter 14.  Pre/Post test due Friday. (Post test for grade)

Week Eleven Reading 11/7-11/11 (We need to get caught up from the storm!!!)
Democracy in America
Public Opinion and American Democracy
Cornell West – Race Matters
The Phantom Public
Direct Democracy
Politicians Don’t Pander
Twelve Tribes
One Nation Divided
Polling and Democracy
The Other War Room


Week 8-9 Reading 10/17-10/28
Sabado and O'Connor Chapters 12 and 13.
Chapter Pre-Tests due Monday 10/24
Post-tests due Friday 10/28

Week Seven Reading 10/11-10/14
Introduction to Statistical Analysis
Major Components of Research Design

Week Six Reading 10/3-10/7
TEST Week Chapters 1-3
Read Chapter 11

Week Five Reading 9/26-9/30
TBA

Week Four Reading 9/19-9/23
American Government Chapters 3

WEEK THREE READINGS 9/12-9/16
American Government Chapters 1-2

WEEK TWO READINGS 9/5-9/9:



How Do We View Our Constitution?

O'Connor and Sabado Chpt. 1

From the Shared Folder
Second Treatise (Locke)
Locke and Jefferson
Americas Libertarian Roots (Keletsky)
Founding Fathers: A Reform Caucus in Action (Roche)
Framing the Constitution (Beard)
The Power Elite (Mills)
Diversity in the Power Elite (Zweigenhaft)
Interpreting the Constitution (Tribe)
Who Governs (Dahl)
The Constitution is Fundamentaly Undemocratic (Levinson)
The Constitution is Not Undemocratic (Vermeule)
The Merits of the Federal System(Bryce)
One Document, Under Seige (Stengal)

YOU SHOULD TAKE NOTES ON EACH OF THE READINGS WHICH INCLUDE;(1) IDENTIFYING THE AUTHOR'S MAIN THEME(S), (2) ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT, (3) AN EVALUATIVE STATEMENT ON THE MERITS OF THE READING, AND (4) OVERARCHING QUESTION RAISED BY THE READING.

We will have far too many readings of this nature for you to keep track of over the span of the course without taking thorough notes. YOU MUST DEVELOP YOUR NOTETAKING SKILLS.


UNIT I
Constitutional Underpinnings
Overview of our Constitutional Convention Exercise
Interesting editorial on Gov. Perry's book, "Fed Up!" As you undertake your constitutional convention, what do you think of some of the proposals made by Gov. Perry?

War and Independence
**Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (October 1774)
**Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death March 23 1775
**Speech on conciliation with America, March 22, 1775 Edmund Burke
**Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of taking up Arms,
July 6,1775
Plain Truth: Addressed to the inhabitants of America.. Candidus (James Chalmers)
Common Sense and
**The American Crisis by Thomas Paine

Towards a Constitution

Articles of Confederation
Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention
**The Constitution
The Federalist Papers #s 47, 48 & 51
**Amendments to the Constitution

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