ELECTIONS & CAMPAIGNS
ELECTION RESOURCES (INFO USA)
2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Pre-election overview
Exit Polls
Election results, House and Senate
Bush and Gore on the issues
Election Highlights
2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Exit Polls
UNIT # 1 NATURE OF GOVERNMENT
How direct should democracy be? (CS Moniter)
The Perils of Cyber Democracy (National Review Online)
Too Stupid for Democracy (musical parody on democracy)
UNIT # 2 CONSTITUTION
The Amendment Process
Rex E Lee on the Constitution
The Commerce Power, How the Constitution is redefined
Supreme Court Justice Scalia argues for judicial restraint
(EXAMPLE of a strict interpretation of the Constiution)
James Madison, (Study by Lance Banning, University of Kentucky)
UNIT # 3, FEDERALISM
U.S. v. Lopez
A Revolution of Devolution
Supreme Court Strikes Down Key Provision (U.S. v. Morrison)
McCulloch v. Maryland
UNIT # 4, POLITICAL CULTURE & PUBLIC OPINION
Separate Worlds (US News Nov 04)
What's your political Ideology? (Pew Center Survey)
Applebee's America (Ideology Test)
UNIT # 5, POLITICAL PARITICIPATION & PARTIES
>>ELECTORAL COLLEGE >>
Electoral College Map
How the Electoral College system works (ABCNews)
Electoral College Explainer (CNN)
How the Electoral College Works (national atlas)
U.S. Electoral College
State laws, faithless electors
Electoral College Football
Reforming the Electoral College
The electoral college, pros & cons
BUSH PRESIDENCY
Controlling the flow of information
>>MISC.>>
Presidential Speech Writing
UNIT # 5, POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND POLITICAL PARTIES
High voter turnout for 2004?
Political parties and Voting (ABA resource)
Hussein gets 100% of vote
Democrats attack Bush policies
"Divided We Stand, United We Fall" (CBSNews)
How Deep the Divide? (US News & World Report)
Inside Red and Blued America (CSM, a 5 part series)
Both Big Parties Solidify Swiftly (CSM)
Two-party system
Beauty of the Two-Party System
Two-party system is letting us down
Third parties can't win in a Two-party system
Getting on the Ballot
Voter Freedom Act 2003
(See a bill to remove obstacles to third party candidates ballot access)
What it takes to get on the ballot
IDEOLOGICAL ISSUES
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GUN CONTROL
Assault weapons ban expires
Assault weapons ban INTERACTIVE
LANDMARK CASES
Marbury v Madison (1803)
McCulloch v Maryland (1819)
Dred Scott Case (1857)
Brown v Board of Education (1954)
Nixon v US (1974)
MODERN CASES
US v. Morrison (2000)
US v Lopez (1995)
UNIT #10 LOBBIES AND THE MEDIA
Lobbying Against America (CNN)
FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES
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THE NEOCONSERVATIVES
The following resources from the Christian Science Moniter reveal the innerworkings of the so called Neoconservative movement. If you want to know the ideology and influences behind the White House's foreign policy, these are great resouces.
Empire builders
Decline of the Neocons?
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Inside the FBI: CBS News Interactive (scroll down the link "Inside the FBI")
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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Building the Super
Ground Zero (CNN)
Loose Nukes (Frontline)
NATIONAL SECURTIY, DEFENSE AND INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATIONS
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Bush Pushed First Strike Strategy
First-Strike Strategy Considered
2002 National Security Strategy of the US
US-China Show down Ineractive (2001)
China intercepts US Navy plane
US Military Organization: CBSNews Interactive (go to "military 101" link on the page)
DEFENSE ORGANIZATIONS
US Department of Defense
US Strategic Command
Joint Chiefs of Staff
NORD (North American Aerospace Defense Command)
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATIONS
CIA (home page)
CIA (info from FAS)
CIA World Fact Book
NSA (National Security Agency)
NSA ( CNN In depth)
How Encryption Works
Echelon (FAS info on)
Echelon (Report on Echelon)
NRO (National Reconnaissance Office)
WEAPONS AND TECHNOLOGY
Missile Wars (Frontline Special)
MissleWars Video (NORAD)
The Nuclear Football (Global Security)
TACAMO (Federation of American Scientists)
US Weapons systems (Global Security)
Weapons of Operation Enduring Freedom
Spy Satellites
UAV’s, UCAV’s, drones
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