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Sean Mattie, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
seanmattie@clayton.edu
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COURSES

[Fall 2009]

POLS 1101 - American Government

Syllabus (Section 04)
Syllabus (Section 11)

Geography Tests
General Information
Blank Practice Maps
Website for Practice Tests

Primary Source Documents
President Jefferson, First Inaugural (excerpt) (1801)
President Lincoln, First Inaugural (excerpt 1) (1861)
President F.D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address (excerpt) (1944)
President L.B. Johnson, State of the Union Address (excerpt) (1966)
Ronald Reagan, "A Time for Choosing" (excerpt) (1964)
President Reagan, First Inaugural Address (excerpt) (1981)
President Reagan, Address to Nation on Tax Reform (1986)
President Jackson, Bank Veto Message (1832)(excerpt)
President Lincoln, First Inaugural (excerpt 2 - on Supreme Court)

Useful Links
The Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution (with notes and explanations)
U.S. Senate
U.S. House of Representatives
Federal Bills and Laws
U.S. Code
The President
U.S. Executive Branch Departments, Agencies, and Offices
The Federal Judiciary
Georgia Constitution
Georgia State and Local Government
Diagram of Georgia State Government
Georgia Code of Laws
Georgia Election Results (2008-1988)

Lesson Presentations
Success in POLS 1101
The Fundamentals of Politics
The Constitution (Pt. 1)
The Constitution (Pt. 2)
The Constitution (Pt. 3)
Principles of Citizenship (Pt. 1 - Jefferson)
Principles of Citizenship (Pt. 2 - Lincoln)
Federalism
Georgia Constitution and Government
Public Opinion: Liberal and Conservative
Elections (and Campaigns)
Congress (Pt. 1 - Organization)
Congress (Pt. 2 - Lawmaking Process)
Congress (Pt. 3 - Relation to Other Branches)
The Presidency (Pt. 1 - Intro.)
The Presidency (Pt. 2 - Foreign Policy and Congress)
(more to come...)

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POLS 4420 - Political Philosophy

Syllabus

Discussion Questions (with Due Dates)
01. Set of Questions (A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy)
02. Set of Questions (Republic, Books I-II)
03. Set of Questions (Republic, Books III-IV)
04. Set of Questions (Republic, Books V and VIII)
05. Set of Questions (The Prince, Epistle Dedicatory and Chapters I-XV)
06. Set of Questions (The Prince, Chapters XVI-XXVI)
07. Set of Questions (Second Treatise of Government)
08. Set of Questions (Macbeth)

Paper Assignment

Supplemental Documents
Map of Italy in Machiavelli's Era (detailed) (basic 1) (basic 2)
Map of Locations in Shakespeare's Macbeth

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POLS 4422 - African-American Political Thought

Syllabus (updated 10/26)

Primary Source Documents
Justice Thurgood Marshall, “Reflections on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution” (1987)

Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
Massachusetts Declaration of Rights (1780)
Petition of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature (1777)

Thomas Jefferson, from Notes on Virginia (1782)
North Carolina, “An Act to Prevent All Persons from Teaching Slaves to Read and Write” (1832)
Alabama Slave Code (1852) (excerpt)

Fugitive Slave Act and Act to Abolish the Slave Trade in D.C.(1850)
Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Abraham Lincoln, “House Divided” Speech (1858)

President Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
Frederick Douglass, “Men of Color, to Arms” (1863)
President Lincoln, Second Inaugural (1865)
Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants” (1865)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to U.S. Constitution (1865-1870)
Rep. Robert B. Elliott, Address in U.S. House on civil rights (1874)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) (excerpts)
Booker T. Washington, “Rights and Duties of the Negro” (1903)
Shelby Steele, “Pride and Compromise” (2009)

Ida B. Wells, On Lynching (1892)
Ida B. Wells, “This Awful Slaughter” (1909)
A. Philip Randolph, “Why We Should March” (1942)
Thurgood Marshall, “Segregation and Desegregation” (1954)

Brown v. Board of Education I (1954)
Brown v. Board of Education II (1955)
Martin Luther King, Jr., “Nonviolence and Racial Justice” (excerpt) (1957)
Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech at March on Washington (“I Have a Dream”) (1963)
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (excerpt)
Voting Rights Act of 1965 (summary)
Bayard Rustin, “‘Black Power’ and Coalition Politics” (1966)

President L.B. Johnson, Address at Howard University (“To Fulfill These Rights”) (1965)
Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) (syllabus)
Ricci v. DeStefano (2009) (syllabus)
Parents v. Seattle School District 1 (2006) (syllabus)
Board of Regents v. Bakke (1978) (syllabus)
Shaw v. Reno (1993) (syllabus)

Senator Barack Obama, Address on Race (2008)
Shelby Steele, “Why the GOP Can’t Win with Minorities” (2009)
Shelby Steele, “Affirmative Action Is Just a Distraction” (2009)

Extra Primary Source Documents
Frederick Douglass, Meeting with Former Master Thomas Auld (1892)
Abraham Lincoln, Speech to Young Men's Lyceum (1838)
U.S. Senate, Resolution Regarding Lynching (2005)

Supplemental Documents
Map of 1820 Compromise
Map of 1820 Slave Population and Distribution
Map of 1850 Compromise
Map of Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Map of 1860 Slave Population and Distribution
Map of Secession 1860-1861
Dred Scott Case (1857)

Discussion Questions (with Due Dates)
01. Set of Questions (American Citizenship: Natural Rights and Civil Rights [1770s-1780s])
02. Set of Questions (The Laws and Customs of Slavery)
03. Set of Questions (Slavery as National Political Crisis [1830s-1850s])
04a. Set of Questions [1 of 2] (Emancipation and the Beginning of Citizenship [1860s-1900s])
04b. Set of Questions [2 of 2] (Emancipation and the Beginning of Citizenship [1860s-1900s])
05. Set of Questions (Organization and Activism [1900s-1950s])
06. Set of Questions (The Civil Rights Movement [1950-1960s])
07. Set of Questions (Affirmative Action and Other Race-Specific Policies)
08. Set of Questions (Current Discussion of Race Policy and Racial Politics)

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