Website of the Week

Cases and Materials on American Federalism, http://www.agh-attorneys.com/3_camo_contents.htm

This website is produced by Douglas Amber for his class on American Government and Public Policy at Purdue University Calumet. It includes links to a wide assortment of constitutional provisions, cases, statutes, and documents on federalism.

The site is organized into chapters:

1. American socio-political heritage
2. constitutional beginnings
3. consequences of federalism
4. definition and structure of democracy
5. the Congress
6. the President
7. federal courts
8. civil liberties and rights

A glossary of terms (legal and archaic), a timeline, and links to websites of political parties and organizations complete the offerings.

Representative of the materials provided are:

• the Articles of Confederation
• Bush v Gore
• the Constitution of the Confederate States of America
• the Emancipation Proclamation
• Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence
• the Magna Carta
• Marbury v Madison
• Nixon v U.S.
• selections from Blackstone's Commentaries, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Locke's Second Treatise of Government
• U.S. Term Limits v Thornton
• various items from The Federalist Papers
• Washington's farewell address