1. Setting the foundation

2.  Keep an open mind
 Yet, be skeptical
 Critique an argument based on:
 Logically consistent?
 Factually correct?
 Sufficient evidence?
 Better explanation?

3.  Efforts to influence/control group decision-making

4.  Power: constraining others
 Influence
 Coercion (force)
 Resources (tangible/intangible goods)
• Authority: legitimacy of rulers/rules
 Choose to obey
 “Social Contract”

5.  The Preamble: “We the People”
 Article I: the legislature.
 The intended primary branch?
 Approval ratings?
 Article II: the president
 The current primary branch?
 Article III: federal judicial system
 The unaccountable branch?

6.  Article IV: the states
 The states or the people?
 the power of the Senate & the Electoral College?
 The remaining articles deal with a variety of issues
 including the supremacy clause

8.  BoR not original:
 is it worth less?
 Most rights prohibit govt. infringing on liberty
 Which limit liberty?
 Are our rights clearly stated?
 EX: 2nd Amendment?

10.  Slavery outlawed (13th in 1865)
 Senators directly elected (17th in 1913)
 Limit state’s abilities to limit rights/liberties (14th in
1868)
 Increased Equality (Race via the 15th in 1870; Gender
via the 19th in 1920; D.C. via the 23rd in 1961; Class via
the 24th in 1964); and Age via the 26th in 1971)

11.  Liberty vs. Order
 Equality vs. Liberty
 Economic Equality
 Property Rights & Capitalism
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12.  How much power and what role should it play in the
lives of citizens?
 Morality
 Social Programs
 the Economy
 National Security
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13. A Four-
Cornered
Ideological
Grid
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15. “Here is not merely a nation
but a teeming Nation of
nations”
Walt Whitman
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16. Source: Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, 2005, Table 1. (www.usics.gov)
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17. SOURCE: Washington Post, National Weekly Edition, May 29–June 4, 2006, 8.
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19. © The New Yorker Collection 1992. J.B. Handelsman
from cartoonbank.com. All rights reserved.
Click here to go to the U.S. POPClock Projection
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20.  Aging
 Population Growth
 Ethnic Change
 Changes in Hispanic Community
 Women in the Workforce
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21. *Data for 2025 and 2050 are projections.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census.
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23.  Politics center on the meaning of the “social contract”
 Americans must reconcile tradition and change
 Continuity vs. change