2302 COURSE OUTLINE
Aug. 25 Aug 27
The United States Congress
Read: American and Texas Government Ch. 10
Read: Hamilton, Lee "What I Wish Political Scientists Would Teach about Congress".
Dialogue of Democracy, Volume III, pages 197206, 2002
Sept. 1 Labor Day No Class
Sept. 3 Sept. 8
The Texas Legislature
Read: American and Texas Government, Ch. 26
Sept. 10 Sept. 15
The Presidency
Read: American and Texas Government Ch. 11
Read: Rockman, Bert. "The Limits of Executive Power".
Dialogue of Democracy, Volume III, pages 162-167, 2002
Read: Charles Krauthammer, "Where Presidents Have No Power",
Time, May 10, 2004.
Sept. 17 Sept. 22
First Assignment due
Read: American and Texas Government,
The Executive Branch Ch. 27
Sept. 24 FIRST TEST
Sept. 29 Oct. 1
The Federal Bureaucracy
Read: American and Texas Government Ch. 12
Read: "Shell Game",
Wall Street Journal, Aug. 23, 2007
Oct. 6 Oct. 8
Federal Regulatory Policymaking
Read: American and Texas Government Ch. 15
Read: Weidenbaum, M., "Federal Regulatory Policy, 1980-2000"
Dialogue of Democracy: Vol III, pages 315-319
Read: Lindzem, Richard, Ph.D., "Climate of Fear",
Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2006
Read: "Hockey Stick Hokum",
Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2006
Read: Spencer, Roy, Ph.D., "Not That Simple",
New York Post, August 23, 2007
Read: Bansal, Monica, "Sun, Not Man, Main Cause of Climate Change, New Study Says",
Regulatory Policymaking in Texas
Read: American and Texas Government, pp. 299-302
Oct. 13 Oct. 15 Second Assignment due
The Judicial Branch of American Government (Federal Courts)
Read: American and Texas Government Ch. 13
Read: Bock, Robert and McGuigan, Patrick B.
"Judge Bork in Defense of Strict Construction".
Dialogue of Democracy: Vol II, pages 292-294
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2302 Course Outline (continued)
Read: Tribe, Laurence "The Myth of the Strict Constructionist: Our Incomplete Constitution".
Dialogue of Democracy: Vol II, pages 295-300
Read: Scalia, Antonin. "The Dying Constitution: Vigilant Justices".
Dialogue of Democracy: Vol II, pages 36-38
Oct. 20 Oct. 22
The Judicial Branch of Texas Government
Read: American and Texas Government, Ch. 28
Oct. 27 SECOND TEST
Oct. 29 Nov. 3
Civil Liberties
Read: American and Texas Government Ch. 16
(selected articles to be given in class)
Read: "Abolish FISA"
Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2006
Nov. 5 3rd Assignment Due
Nov. 5 Nov. 10
Public Economics in America
Read: American and Texas Government Ch. 14
Read: Steve Forbes, "One Simple Rate",
Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2005.
Read: Cogan, John F.; Hubbard, R. and Kessler, Daniel P., "Not A Panacea"
Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2006
Nov. 12 Nov. 17
Fiscal Policies in Texas
Read: American and Texas Government, Ch. 31
Nov. 19 THIRD TEST
Nov. 24 Nov. 26 4th Assignment Due
Civil-Rights Policymaking
Read: American and Texas Government Ch. 17
American and Texas Government, pp. 622-625
Read: King, Martin Luther Jr. "Letters From Birmingham Jail"
Dialogue of Democracy: Vol I, pages 507-510
Read: Brady, Eric, "James Madisons Hard Cuts Spur Title IX Debate"
USA Today, April 19, 2007
Read: Meyers, Michael, "The NAACP at a Crossroads"
Wall Street Journal, September 4, 2007
Dec. 1 Dec. 3 5th Assignment Due
American Foreign and Defense Policies
Read: American and Texas Government Ch. 18
Read: (selected articles to be assigned in class)
Read: Snodgrasss, Tom (Col.). "Rewriting the Rules of War",
American Thinker January 2, 2007
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/01/post.html
Dec. 8 FINAL EXAM