Saturday, March 30
Introduction to the Legislative Process – Dean Mark Rozell
Required Reading:
Donald A. Richie, The U.S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction (2d. ed., Oxford University Press 2016) (2010). (Available here).
Senate & House Rules and Procedure – Professor Jennifer Victor
Required Reading:
Chapter 6 of: Theodore J. Lowi et al., American Government: Power and Purpose (15th ed., W. W. Norton 2019) (1990). (Available here).
Recommended Reading:
Roger H. Davidson et. al., Congress and Its Members (16th ed., Sage Publications 2018) (1981) (Available here).
Barbara Sinclair, Unorthodox Lawmaking: New Legislative Process in the U.S. Congress (5th ed., Sage Publications 2017) (2016) (Available here).
Lawrence C. Dodd & Bruce I. Oppenheimer, Congress Reconsidered (11th ed., Sage Publications, 2017) (1997) (Available here).
Steven S. Smith et. al., The American Congress (9th ed., Cambridge University Press 2015) (1995) (Available here).
Walter J. Oleszek et. al., Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process (10th ed., Sage Publications 2015) (1975) (Available here).
Introduction to the Judiciary – NSI Founder and Executive Director Jamil N. Jaffer
Required Reading:
Coming Soon
Sunday, March 31
Executive Branch Overview – Professor Lindsay Eberhardt
Required Reading:
Chapter 1 of: Charles Jones, The American Presidency: A Very Short Introduction (2d. ed. Oxford University Press, 2016) (2007). (Available here).
The Federalist No. 70 (Alexander Hamilton) (Available here).
Benjamin A. Kleinerman, Lincoln’s Example: Executive Power and the Survival of Constituionalism, 3 Persp. on Pol. 701, 801-16 (2005) (Available here).
President Theodore Roosevelt, Dedication of the John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie, Kansas (Aug. 31, 1910) (Available here).
Chapter 3 of: Woodrow Wilson, Constitutional Government in the United States (New ed., Transaction Publishers, 2001) (Available here).
James W. Caeser et al., The Rise of the Rhetorical Presidency, 11 Pres. Stud. Q. 2, 158-71 (Available here).