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Semester 1: Understanding American Politics
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MAKE UP SESSION for GROUP 2 on TUESDAY DECEMBER 10 at 11:20 (CEIL where we will find a spare room)
MAKE UP TEST (for those who have missed the 1st or2nd test, and the latecomers) on MONDAY DECEMBER 16 at 12:50 (CEIL where we will find a room - meeting place: room 1)
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HANDOUT:
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POWER OF CONGRESS/ IMPEACHMENT
THE LATEST REPORT/
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NEW: TD / EVALUATION
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WEEK 4 OF OCTOBER 2019
- The Idea of Democracy
- The American Revolution and the Origins of the US System of Government.
WEEK 1 OF NOVEMBER 2019
- The Articles of Confederation & the Constitution
download « lectures 1-2-3.pdf »
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Group 2 -MAKE UP SESSION ON TUESDAY NOV. 12AT 11.20 - meeting in the CEIL compound to find a room
NEW
Readings for October 27 2019 (group 1) and October 30, 2019 (group 2)
1. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (excerpt)
Download Thomas-Hobbes-Leviathan-reading.pdf »
2. John locke, The Second Treatise of Government (excerpts)
Download « locke_second_treatise_excerpts.pdf »
3. VERY IMPORTANT (excerpt from Kimberly Hutchings (1998) "Modelling democracy," Global Society, 12:2,159-175, DOI: 10.1080/13600829808443158) Download «Two Stories of Democracy.pdf »
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research assignments MASTER 1
Topics:
paper template:
Télécharger « paper template.pdf »
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NEW: Readings for November, 3 (group 1), November 6 (group 2), 2019
Paine's Common Sense (excerpt): (no summary)
download « Paine s Common Sense excerpt.pdf »
Declaration of Independence (1776) (no summary)
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
download « documents_articles of confederation excerpt.pdf »
download « The Making of the Constitution.pdf »
The Constitution and the Federalist Papers:
download « Federalist Papers excerpt.pdf »
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NEW: Readings for November 2019
An interpretation:
download « behind the framing of the constitution.pdf »
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THE POWER OF THE CONGRESS/
Case 1: Impeachment
https://www.democracynow.org/live/watch_house_of_representatives_intelligence_committee
CHECKS AND BALANCES/
cases:
US vs Alvarez (2012)
http://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/holding-us-v-alvarez
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New
The US Congress / quick facts-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
MLA
Télécharger « Codex-MLA8.pdf »
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Required Readings
Declaration of Independence (to be downloaded and printed):
Paine's Common Sense (excerpt):
download « Paine s Common Sense excerpt.pdf »
The Articles of Confederation (excerpt):
Other Sources:
Paine's Common Sense:
download « Common Sense_Paine 1776.pdf »
John Adams' Letters to wife Abigail (selected):
https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/browse/letters_1774_1777.php
Federalist Papers:
Télécharger « Essential-Federalist-Papers.pdf »
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Elections: From M. J. C. Vile, Politics in the USA 6th ed. (New York: Routledge, 2007)
Gerrymandering:
INTEREST GROUPS/
LOBBYING/