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PART ONE: THE AMERICAN SYSTEM. 1. American Government and Politics:Stability and Change. 2. The Constitution. Appendix: The Constitution of theUnited States of America 3. Federalism. PART TWO: CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES.4. Civil Liberties. 5. Civil Rights: Equal Protection Under the Law. 6. CivilRights: Beyond Equal Protection. PART THREE: PEOPLE AND POLITICS. 7. PublicOpinion. 8. Interest Groups. 9. Political Parties. 10. Campaigns, Candidates,and Elections. PART FOUR: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS 12. The Congress. 13. ThePresidency. 14. The Bureaucracy. 15. The Judiciary. PART FIVE: PUBLIC POLICY:16. Domestic Policy. 17. Economic Policy. 18. Foreign and Defense Policy.PART SIX: STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS 19. State and Local Government. AppendixA-The Declaration of Independence. Appendix B-How to Read Court Citations andFind Court Decisions. Appendix C-Presidents of the United States. AppendixD-Federalist Papers No. 10, No. 51, and No. 78. Appendix E- Justices of theU.S. Supreme Court in the Twentieth Century. Appendix F-Party Control ofCongress in the Twentieth Century. Appendix G- Spanish Equivalents forImportant Terms in American Government.