Brandeis University

Politics 14b Final Examination Review 2005

(50%) Question 1

I will ask you to identify and explain the significance of terms, cases, institutions, theories, etc.

For example, if I ask you to identify and explain "group theory" you would discuss Truman, Lowi, and ideally Schattschneider, stating their views on group theory and how they view the significance of interest groups in government. You of course should where relevant bring in text and lecture material beyond the readings and cases in the Woll Reader.

I will ask you to choose 5 questions out of a list, and we will count only the first five you answer.

For this question prepare and brief analysis of the following. Note that a short answer question may include more than one of these review topics.

• Federalist 10, 47,48,51
  
• Federalist 70 and the Hamiltonian presidency
• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
• Barron v. Balitmore (1833)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Roe v. Wade (1973) and the right to privacy
• Buckley v. Valeo
  
• McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003)
• Congressional versus Presidential "parties" in government and in elections
• Constitutional and Legislative Courts
• Hamilton in Federalist 78 and Marshall in Marbury v. Madison
• presidential character and performance (Barber)
• Woodrow Wilson's Congressional Government
• The Brownlow Committee on Administrative Management 1937
• Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer 343 U.S. 579 (1952).
• Congressional member incentives and the nature of Congress
• Madison in the Federalist, 10, 55-58; John Stuart Mill, Representative Government, and Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol, theories of representation
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• John Locke's Second Treatise, Of Civil Government
• group theory and political pluralism
• party government pro and con in your readings
• Hamilton, Rossiter, and Neustadt on the American Presidency
• The Supreme Court and the doctrine of standing

(50%) Question II

James Madison is pretty perturbed about how future scholars and political leaders have made various recommendations to change his model of government. He designed his "Madisonian Model" to last into eternity producing a balanced and deliberative government that would forever serve the people and the social contract.

Madison also is not all that happy with the way in which his colleague Alexander Hamilton interprets his model. He looks at the modern Presidency and begins to think that Hamilton has won.

Now Madison, Hamilton, John Stuart Mill, and Edmund Burke meet today and immediately turn their discussion to politics and what they see in the world of contemporary American government.

Write their script, noting what points each would raise from their own theoretical frameworks.