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Up Sheet for Class Presentations*
Introduction to American Government and Politics
(PLSC 1320-003HTS)
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Article/Case |
Tentative Date |
Student |
| Roche, "The Founding Fathers: A Reform Caucus..." | 29 January | |
| Beard, "Framing the Constitution" | 6 February | |
| McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)** | 10 February |
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| Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)** | 10 February | |
| U.S. v. Darby (1941)** | 12 February | |
| Heart of Atlanta Hotel v. U.S. (1964)** | 12 February | |
| U.S. v. Lopez (1995)** | 12 February | |
| Texas v. Johnson (1989)** | 24 February |
James Quail |
| Berelson, et al., "Democratic Practice and Theory" | 26 February | Cory Webb |
| Hardin, "The Free Rider Problem" | 26 February | |
| Smith v. Allwright (1944)** | 1 March | |
| Morine and Deane, "Fractured Parties" | 5 March | |
| Key, "A Theory of Critical Elections" | 15 March | Chase Wood |
| Ex Parte McCardle (1869) | 24 March | |
| Meese, "Jurisprudence of Original Intent" | 26 March | |
| Brennan, "My Encounters with the Constitutional Text" | 26 March | |
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Everson v. Board of Ed. (1947) |
7 April | |
| Engel v. Vitale (1962) | 7 April | Kacey Nelson |
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Wallace v. Jaffree (1985) |
9 April | Sofia Boza |
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Lee v. Weisman (1992) |
9 April |
Paul Moseley |
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Zelman v. Harris (2002) |
9 April | |
| Rosen, "Power of One" | 14 April | |
| U.S. v. Curtiss-Wright (1936)** | 14 April | Campos, Jose |
| Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer (1952)** | 16 April | |
| U.S. v. Nixon (1974)** | 16 April | Kevin Kobylka |
| Clinton v. Jones (1997) ** | 19 April | |
| Boumediene v. Bush (2008) | 19 April | |
| Fiorina, "The Rise of the Washington Establishment" | 30 April |
Look over the selections, and then email me your top three choices; I will assign selections on a first-come, first-served basis. If you have not selected a case by Friday, 29 January, I will select one for you. (In that eventuality, you better hope that our interests coincide. Otherwise....)
*Presentations are to be no longer than 5 minutes. Email me (jkobylka@mail.smu.edu).your
choices (give me three choices,
ordered by preference), give me a call, talk to me
after class, or stop by during office hours.
**Supreme Court Cases are linked directly from this page.
1Denotes presentations assigned by the professor