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1. Introduction
2. Why It Matters
3. Creating a Government
4. A. Reading: The Philosophical Perspective
5. Popular Sovereignty
6. B. Reading: The Nature of Government
7. Video: Democracy and Majority Rule (I)
8. Video: Democracy and Majority Rule (II)
9. Reading: We, All of the People
10. The First American Political System
11. C. Reading: The First American Political System
12. Constitutional Convention
13. D. Reading: Creating and Ratifying the Constitution
14. Constitutional Principles
15. E. Reading: Constitutional Principles and Provisions
16. Video: Creating a Constitution
17. Video: Creating a Nation
18. Putting It Together
19. Why It Matters
20. Defining Federalism
21. Reading: Federalism As a Structure for Power
22. Video: Las Vegas Isn't Las Vegas
23. Reading: Federalism
24. Reading: The Powers of National Government
25. Reading: Police Power
26. Evolving Federalism
27. Reading: The Meanings of Federalism
28. Pros and Cons of Federalism
29. Reading: Why Federalism Works (More or Less)
30. Reading: State Legislatures As 'Laboratories of Democracy'
31. Video: United States of ALEC—A Follow-Up
32. Putting It Together
33. Why It Matters
34. Evolving Protections
35. A. Reading: The Bill of Rights
36. B. Reading: Vox Cards: The War on Drugs
37. The First Amendment
38. C. Reading: Religion, Speech, the Press, Assembly, and Petition
39. Video: The Kalb Report—Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Antonin Scalia
40. Fundamental Freedoms
41. D. Reading: Arms, Search and Seizure, Accusation, Punishment, Property, and Privacy
42. Reading: So You Think You Know the Second Amendment?
43. Reading: Death by the Barrel
44. Video: Eric Foner on the Origins of the Right to Privacy
45. Reading: The NSA Scandal
46. E. Reading: Vox Cards: The NSA Spying Debate
47. **Video: Munk Debate on State Surveillance - LINK
48. F. Reading: Civil Liberties in the Information Age
49. Achieving Equality?
50. G. Reading: Civil War Amendments and African Americans
51. Video: The Racism of the U.S. Justice System in 10 Charts
52. Reading: The Case for Reparations
53. Reading: The Use of Force Continuum: Police, Power, and Prejudice
54. H. Reading: Vox Cards: The 2014 Ferguson Protests
55. Reading: Urban Policing, without Brutality
56. Video: The Future of Race in America
57. Video: The Charleston Shooting
58. Expanding the Struggle for Equality
59. I. Reading: Other Minorities, Women, Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Disabled
60. Video: The March of Marriage Equality
61. Video: How Most States Discriminate against LGBT People
62. Video: Nine Facts About Violence against Women Everyone Should Know
63. Reading: Civil Rights in the Information Age
64. Putting It Together
65. Why It Matters
66. The Powers of Congress
67. A. Reading: The Powers of Congress
68. Bicameralism
69. B. Reading: A Bicameral Legislative Branch
70. Organizing