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| Preface | |
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| About the authors | |
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| Democratic Aspirations, Republican Constitutional Foundations | |
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| The American Democratic Republic | |
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| Eighteenth-Century Republicanism | |
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| Democracy | |
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| The American Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Constitution | |
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| The American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence | |
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| The Articles of Confederation: The First Constitution | |
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| The Democratic Challenge | |
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| The Constitutional Convention | |
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| What the Framers Created | |
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| The Struggle to Ratify the Constitution | |
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| The Changing Constitution and the American Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Federalism: States and Nation | |
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| Federalism as a System of Government | |
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| Federalism in the Constitution | |
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| The Evolution of American Federalism | |
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| Fiscal Federalism | |
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| U.S. Federalism: Pro and Con | |
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| Federalism and the Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Internet Sources | |
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| Civil Liberties | |
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| Civil Liberties in the Constitution | |
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| Rights and Liberties in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Nationalization of the Bill of Rights | |
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| Freedom of Speech | |
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| Freedom of the Press | |
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| Religious Freedom | |
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| Privacy | |
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| Rights of Those Accused of a Crime | |
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| Civil Liberties and Terrorism | |
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| Civil Liberties and the Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Civil Rights | |
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| Civill Rights Before the Twentieth Century | |
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| The Contemporary status of Civil Rights for Racial Minorities | |
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| The Contemporary Status of Civil Rights for Women | |
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| Broadening the Civil Rights Umbrella | |
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| Civil Rights in the Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Internet Sources | |
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| Political Institutions | |
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| Public Opinion | |
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| Democracy and Public Opinion | |
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| Finding Out What People Think | |
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| Political Socialization: Learning Political Beliefs and Attitudes | |
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| How and Why People's Political Attitudes Differ | |
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| The Contours of American Public Opinion: Are the People Fit to Rule? | |
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| Does Public Opinion Determine What Government Does? | |
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| Public Opinion and the Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Internet Sources | |
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| The News Media | |
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| Roles of the News Media in a Democracy | |
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| Mainstream and Nonmainstream News Media | |
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| How the Mainstream News Media Work | |
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| Effects of the News Media on Politics | |
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| Democratic and Republican Encounters | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Internet Sources | |
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| Interest Groups | |
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| Interest Groups in a Democratic Society: Contrasting Views | |
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| The Interest Group Universe | |
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| Why There Are So Many Interest Groups | |
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| What Interest Groups Do | |
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| Interest Groups and Inequality in American Politics | |
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| Curing the Mischief of Factions | |
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| Interest Groups and the Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Internet Sources | |
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| Political Parties | |
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| The Role of Political Parties in a Democratic Republic | |
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| The American Two-Party System | |
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| The Democratic and Republican Parties | |
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| The Parties in Government and in the Electorate | |
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| Political Parties and the Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Internet Sources | |
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| Elections and citizen Participation | |
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| The Place of Elections in Democratic and Republican Theories | |
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| Voting in the United States | |
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| Who Votes? | |
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| Campaigning for Office | |
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| Election Outcomes | |
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| Elections and Participation in the Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Internet Sources | |
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| Government Institutions | |
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| Congress | |
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| The Eighteenth-Century Republican Constitutional Foundations of Congress | |
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| Representation and Democracy | |
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| How Congress Works | |
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| How Effective Is Congress? | |
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| Congress and the Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| ThePresident | |
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| The Expanding Presidency | |
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| The Powers and Roles of the President | |
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| The President's Staff and Cabinet | |
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| The President and Congress: Perpetual Tug-of-War | |
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| The President and the People: An Evolving Relationship | |
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| The Presidency and the Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| TheFedral Bureaucracy | |
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| The Bureaucracy in Democratic and Eighteenth-Century Republican Doctrines | |
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| The American Bureaucracy: How Exceptional? | |
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| How the Executive Branch Is Organized | |
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| What Do Bureaucrats Do? | |
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| Who Are the Bureaucrats? | |
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| Political and Governmental Influences on Bureaucratic Behavior | |
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| Reforming the Federal Bureaucracy | |
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| The Federal Bureaucracy and the Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Thee Courts | |
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| The Foundations of Judicial Power | |
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| Eighteenth-Century Republican Constitutional Design | |
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| The U.S. Court System: Organization and Jurisdiction | |
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| Appointment to the Federal Bench | |
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| The Supreme Court in Action | |
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| The Supreme Court as a National Policymaker | |
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| Outside Influences on the Court | |
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| The Supreme Court and the Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| What Government Does | |
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| The Budget and Economic Policies | |
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| Public Policy | |
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| Economic Policies | |
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| The Main Players and Influences on Economic Policy | |
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| The Government's Macroeconomic Policy Tools | |
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| Taxing, Spending, and the Federal Budget | |
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| Regulation | |
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| Economic Policies in the Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Social Safety Nets | |
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| Why Safety Net Programs? | |
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| An Outline of American Safety Net Programs | |
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| Social Insurance | |
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| Means-Tested Programs | |
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| Differences in the American System of Social Safety Nets | |
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| Social Safety Nets in the Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Foreign Policy and National Defense | |
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| Foreign Policy and Democracy: A Contradiction in Terms? | |
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| The World's Superpower (Still) | |
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| Problems of the Post-Cold War World | |
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| The Middle East | |
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| Foreign and Defense Policies and the Democratic Republic | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Appendix | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| The Constitution of the United States | |
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| The Federalist Papers, Nos. 10, 51, and 78 | |
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| Presidents and Congresses, 1789-2013 | |
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| Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, 1789-2010 | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |