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Submitted by ernestbunberry on April 22, 2006
Category: American History
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Overview
This course is intended to teach you how to think about what constitutions do and how they do it. At one level, constitutions provide the structure for politics by creating political positions and defining the authorities that accrue to the holders of those positions. They also lay out the limits and constraints on those authorities, sometimes and in some cases to better effect than others. At another level, constitutions define: the nature of the state and its relationship to citizens; qualifications for citizenship and citizens’ rights and duties; and (in more or less detail) the nature and quality of citizen representation and input into policy making. More generally, constitutions define both political actors and the relationships between them.
Constitutions are political documents. What a given constitution contains depends on the intent of its writers and the politics of putting it into effect. We will focus in this course principally on those elements of constitutions that structure relationships between political actors and define the outlines of politics and policy making, with an eye to understanding why and to what ends actors seek specific constitutional provisions. In the process, we will look at some of the reasons that constitutions fail and ask whether or to what extent constitutional failures in history have been inevitable.
Item Percent of
total grade
Initial Iraq paper* 10
Short topic papers, 5 points each: 40
Rights
Commitment
Regional authority
Government system
Legislature
Electoral rules
Judiciary
Commerce
Group project and presentation* 5
Participation, 5 points each: 15
presentation attendance
peer paper evaluation*
discussions, etc
Final paper* 30
first draft*, 5 points
final draft*, 25 points
Requirements and grading
Your final grade will depend...
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