American Political Systems--Kittredge Honors
Schedule of Topics, Readings & Exams:
Spring 2004

1/12 Intro syllabus; Power in America

1/14 The One the Two and the Many

 1/21 & 26 F. J. Turner/Consensus & Cleavage

1/28 Citizenship and Hartz

2/2 Locke

2/4 Declaration of Independence

2/9 Reassessing Hartz

2/11 United Divided?

2/16 Mixed government

2/18 Citizenship

2/23 Bifurcation

2/25 Ambiguous Democracy; Ambivalent government

3/1 Exam on Founding and Roelofs; Draft of the Theory of Pragmatism and Choice of Pragmatist.

3/8 President–Bifocals; Skowronek; The Priestly Functions of the Presidency

3/10 Congress– Bifocals; States, Federalism

3/15 Institutions; Honesty and Efficiency

3/17 Cycle theory; Realignments

3/22 & 24 Spring Break

3/29 Civil War I

         Election of 1824
        The Crittenden Amendment
        The Constitution of the Confederate States;

3/31 Civil War II: Gettysburg Address

4/5 Civil War III: Lincoln's Second Inaugural

4/7 Exam on Harry Jaffa's, Crisis of the House Divided; 

4/ 12, 14, 19, 21: Research & Writing; Paper due 4/21

4/26 & 28 Mansfield: America’s Constitutional Soul

4/28 Review, grades, hand out final exam. Exam Due in my office by noon May 5