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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPart I - FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
1. Approaching Democracy
2. The Founding and the Constitution
The Constitution of the United States
3. Federalism
PART II - INSTITUTIONS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
4. Congress
5. The Presidency
6. The Judiciary
7. The Bureaucracy
PART III - PROCESSES OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
8. Public Opinion
9. Political Parties
10. Participation, Voting, and Elections
11. Interest Groups
12. The Media
PART IV - LIBERTIES AND RIGHTS IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACIES
13. Civil Liberties
14. Civil Rights and Political Equality
PART V - POLICY MAKING IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
15. Domestic and Economic Policy
16. Foreign Policy
Appendix I - Introducing the Concept of Approaching Democracy
Appendix II - Presidents and Congresses, 1789-2009
Appendix III - Supreme Court Justices
Appendix IV - The Declaration of Independence
Appendix V - The Federalist, No. 10, James Madison
Appendix VI - The Federalist, No. 51, James Mdison
