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 PoGo 100: Introduction to American Government
Daily Reading
New
York Times - Politics
Section
New
York Times - Opinion
Section
Direct Links to Online Readings
Christopher Anderson, Amending
the Constitution
James Madison, Federalist
51, New York Packet (Friday, February 8, 1788).
James Madison, Federalist
10, New York Packet (Friday, November 23, 1787).
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Reader.]
Paul Butler, "Black
Jurors: Right to Acquit?" Harper’s Magazine (December, 1995),
pp. 11-16.
Barbara Ehrenreich, "Nickel-and-Dimed:
On (not) getting by in America," Harper’s Magazine (January,
1999), pp. 37-52.
Henry Jenkins, "Professor
Jenkins Goes to Washington," Harper’s Magazine (July, 1999),
pp. 19-23.
Christopher Lasch, "The
Lost Art of Argument," from The Revolt of the Elites and the
Betrayal of Democracy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1996), pp. 161-175.
J. Allen Smith, "The
Constitution a Reactionary Document," from The Spirit of American
Government (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1965), pp. 27-39.
Mortenson
Electronic Reserve
Recommended Reading
"American
People Ruled Unfit to Govern," The Onion 35, No. 14.
Jill Abramson, "The
Business of Persuasion Thrives in Nation's Capital," New York Times (September
29, 1998).
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Big
Money and Politics, Time 155, no. 5 (February 7, 2000). [There
are four articles altogether: One long one, "How the little guy gets
crunched," and three short ones "Campaign finance," "Drained
batteries," and "Framed."]
Paul Butler, "Black
Jurors: Right to Acquit?" Harper’s Magazine (December, 1995),
pp. 11-16.
Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier, "America
in 1787" from Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional
Convention of 1787 (New York: Ballantine Books, 1986), pp. 18-32.
Dale v. Boy Scouts of New
Jersey, 1999
WL 565900 (N. J.).
Boy Scouts of America
v. Dale,
2000 WL 82641 (U. S.).
Ted Halstead, "A
Politics for Generation X,"
Atlantic Monthly 284, No. 2 (August 1999).
Vaclav Havel, Summer Meditations, trans.
Paul Wilson (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1992), pp. 10-12.
Joe Klein, "Eight Years: Bill Clinton and
the Politics of Persistence," New Yorker (October 16-23, 2000), pp.
188-217. [The file is in two parts: Part
1, Part
2.]
Lewis H. Lapham, "A
Citizen in Full: Ralph Nader campaigns with a course in civics," Harper’s
Magazine (September, 2000), pp. 35-42.
Nicolo Machiavelli, The
Prince, W. K. Marriott, translator (Project Gutenberg Etext:
March, 1998 [Etext #1232]) chapter xviii.
D. T. Max, The
2,988 Words that Changed a Presidency: An Etymology, New York Times
Magazine (Sunday, October 7, 2001).
Robert Nozick, "The Entitlement Theory," in Rosen and
Wolff, eds., Political Thought, pp. 245-248. Excerpts from Anarchy,
State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974).
John Rawls, "Two Principles of Justice," in Michael Rosen
and Jonathan Wolff, eds., Political Thought (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1999), pp. 241-245. Excerpts from A Theory of Justice
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972).
Joan C. Tronto, "Care as a Political Concept," in Nancy
J. Hirschmann and Christine Di Stefano, eds., Revisioning the Political:
Feminist Reconstructions of Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1996), pp. 142-147.
Graham K. Wilson, "The
Size of Government," from Only in America? The Politics of the
United States in Comparative Perspective (Chatham, New Jersey: Chatham
House, 1998), pp. 60-85.
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