Part I Politics 1 Unit 1 The Constitution 3 1. The Constitutional Convention 3 2. Features of the Constitution 10 3. The Fight for Ratification 13 4. The Theory Underlying the Constitution 17 Unit 2 The Presidency and Presidential Election 24 1. The Presidency 24 2. Election 30 3. The Two Constitutional Presidencies 36 Unit 3 The Congress 55 1. How Congress Is Organized 55 2. The Functions of Congress 62 Unit 4 The Judiciary 67 1. Power and Structure of the Court 68 2. Distinguished Justices 74 3. Landmark Cases in American History 77 Unit 5 Federal and State Governments 81 1. Federalism 81 2. The Bureaucracy 92 3. State Governments 99 Unit 6 Political Parties 110 1. The Three Faces of a Party 111 2. Parties and Party System in American History 116 3. The Modern American Party System 122 4. Why Do Americans Have a Two-Party System? 125 Unit 7 Interest Groups 130 1. A Nation of Lobbyists 130 2. Major Interest Groups 133 3. The Fine Art of Lobbying 140 Unit 8 Foreign Policy 146 1. History of United States Foreign Relations 146 2. The American Heritage in Foreign Affairs 167 3. Three Ideological Elements in American Foreign Policy
Part II Economy 181 Unit 9 Important Periods in American Economic Development 183 1. The Age of the Businessman 183 2. From Trust to Antitrust 191 3. The New Deal 202 4. The Post-WWII Economic System of the United States 220 5. The Conservative Era 237 6. New Economy 248 Unit 10 Foreign Trade 255 1. Historical Survey of U.S. Trade Relations 255 2. From the Cold War to the Wired World: Trade Policy in the Clinton Era 274 3. Wassenaar Arrangement and the Future of Multilateral Export Control 280
Part III Society 285 Unit 11 Race and Ethnicity 287 1. Racism in the United States 289 2. The Rise—and Fall?—of Affirmative Action 301 3. The Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority 304<