Julie Janzer

Spring 2008

Govt 2301

General Class Information

Class Syllabus 

Assignments:

• Assignment 1
• Wind Jammers - Wall Street Journal
• Hope Glimmers Through Petraeus' Fatgue - Houston Chronicle
• School's Later Start is Saving Big Bucks - Houston Chronicle
• The Truth About The Top 1% - by Alan Reynolds
• Poverty In America - by Robert Rector
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3
• John O'Neill - "Live" with TAE
• Assignment 4
• Assignment 5
• Electoral College: Anachronism or Bulwark of Democracy? - by William C. Kimberling

Article to read in preparation for Govt 2301- Test 4

• Comment: Redistricting is synonymous with partisanship - by Jeff Wentworth

Articles (assigned reading):

• U.S. Not Wrong To Disregard Other Nations - by Peter Brown
• Federalist Number 10
• Federalist Number 51
• What Every Student Should Know About the Bill of Rights
• How the Media Undermine American Democracy - by James Fallows
• When We Fail to Vote, Democracy Loses - by Judy Mann

Reviews:

• Review for Test #1 (2301)
• Review for Test #2 (2301)
• Review for Test #3 (2301)
• Review for Test #4 (2301)

Govt 2302

General Class Information

Class Syllabus

Assignments:

• Assignment 1
• A Tax Cure for Health Care - by Allan B. Hubbard
• Deception on Capitol Hill - Robert Novak

• Passage of Consent Bill Restores Parental Rights

• Assignment 2

• Shell Game - Wall Street Journal

• State, Federal Powers Collide -Wall Street Journal

• Hockey Stick Hokum - Wall Street Journal

• The Sun Also Sets - Investor Business Daily

• Not That Simple - by Dr. Roy W. Spencer - New York Post

• Climate of Fear - by Dr. Richard Lindzen - Wall Street Journal

• Assignment 3
• Assignment 4
• Assignment 5
• Bush and Iran, Again
• Rewriting the Rules of War - by Col. Tom Snodgrass

Outlines:

• Congress - Outline 1
• Congress - Outline 2
• Texas Legislature - Outline

Articles (assigned reading):

• The Limits of Executive Power - by Lee Hamilton
• What I Wish Political Scientists Would Teach About Congress - by Bert A . Rockman
• Where Presidents Have No Power - by Charles Krauthammer
• Judge Bork in Defense of Strict Construction
• The Dying Constitution: Vigilante Justices - by Antonin Scalia
• Federal Regulatory Policy 1980-2000 - by Murray Weidenbaum
• The Myth of the Strict Constructionist: Our Incomplete Constitution - by Laurence H. Tribe
• Abolish FISA and The Wire Tap Deal
• Letter from Birmingham Jail - by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• James Madison's hard cuts spur Title IX debate - by Erik Brady, USA Today

Reviews:

• Review for Test #1 (2302)
• Review for Test #2 (2302)
• Review for Test #3 (2302)
• Review for Test #4 (2302)
• Victory for Missile Defense - by William Safire
• Review of topics in Factors in the Economy