UCI Week 4 Civil Liberties, Civil Rights & American Political Parties Questions Question Set #2 – Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, and American Political Par

UCI Week 4 Civil Liberties, Civil Rights & American Political Parties Questions Question Set #2 – Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, and American Political Parties

Please respond to each of the five short response questions posted below. Your answers should be short, focused, and complete, ranging from one to three paragraphs. Please make sure to answer each specific part of every question. Successful answers will provide details and context that support your arguments and explain your position to the readers. You may also want to provide real world examples taken from the readings, lectures, group discussions, or your own independent thinking. These illustrations can be from the course materials or your own ideas. Providing this context and being able to apply the material to YOUR OWN understanding of politics really shows us that you have mastered the material.

Each answer will be worth 20 points, for 100 points total. The Question Set is due on Canvas at 11:59 pm on Monday April 27th. You should write plan on uploading your response as a docx file or PDF to this Question Set #2 assignment tab.

Baron v Baltimore established a concept of dual citizenship. How did this view of dual citizenship shape civil liberties/civil rights protections for early citizens of state governments? Why and how did so many of the civil liberties protections come to be nationalized or incorporated? What are the benefits and drawbacks of incorporating civil liberties protections to extend to citizens of United States regardless of their state of residence?
What were Jim Crow laws, and what were their two primary goals? How were these largely remedied in the 1960s, and what are the Constitutional justifications for these remedies? Make sure and note the difference between de facto and de jure segregation in considering the effectiveness of these remedies.
How/why did federalism delay the extension of civil rights to various groups throughout American history? Despite these delays, how/why were these rights eventually extended? Make sure and note the role the federal government, social movements, and individual state governments have played in doing so.
Why do we have parties? What roles do they play in a representative democracy? How can these roles be beneficial? How can they be harmful?
Why does the US have only two major political parties? Make sure and describe Duverger’s law and strategic behavior on the part of voters, politicians, and parties. Explain why it would be hard for a third party to be electorally successful. Week 3 Readings: Civil Liberties and Civil
Rights
The following readings should be completed this week.
Please remember that you should read the entire chapter assigned, beginning with the introduction.
American Government Chapter 4: Civil Liberties
(https://openstax.org/details/books/american-
government-2e)
American Government Chapter 5: Civil Rights
(https://openstax.org/books/american-
government-2e/pages/5-introduction)
(https://openstax.org/books/american-government-2e/pages/5-introduction) MLK, Jr., “Letter
from a Birmingham Jail
(https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/26/4/articles/DavisVol26No4_King.pdf) .”
I mentioned the law review article below in the lecture on Civil Liberties. It is optional. You might ?nd it
interesting
(Optional) Mason, Caleb. “Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading with Fourth
Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps (http://pdf.text?les.com/academics/lj562_mason_article.pdf) .” Louis ULJ 56 (2011): 567.
Week 3 Lectures: Civil Liberties and Civil
Rights
Lecture Videos:
Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights (Part 1) (36:00)
Civil Liberties Part One: The Bill of Rights
Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights (Part 2) (19:42)
Civil Liberties Part 2
The Nationalization of Civil Liberties (28:59)
The Incorporation of Civil Liberties Protections
Civil Rights: Slavery, Reconstruction, & Jim Crow (22:16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DHHjszg8os (https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=_DHHjszg8os)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DHHjszg8os)
Civil Rights: the Civil Rights Movement & its Legacy (18:51)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9AZCI7-O1E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=b9AZCI7-O1E)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9AZCI7-O1E)
Lecture Slides for Notetaking:
Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights Part 1
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9230545/download?wrap=1)
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9230545/download?wrap=1)
Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights Part 2
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9230544/download?wrap=1)
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9230544/download?wrap=1)
The Nationalization of Civil Liberties
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9230546/download?wrap=1)
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9230546/download?wrap=1)
Civil Rights: Slavery, Reconstruction, & Jim Crow
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9230548/download?wrap=1)
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9230548/download?wrap=1)
Civil Rights: the Civil Rights Movement & its Legacy
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9230547/download?wrap=1)
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9230547/download?wrap=1)
Supplemental Videos:
Freedom Summer 1964 (4:01)

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-
Vg6BYcvMc)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Vg6BYcvMc)
Discussion of Shelby County v. Holder 2013 (10:09)

v=3935fcSqgfY)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3935fcSqgfY)
The Battle for School Busing (10:19)

v=sld722slarw)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sld722slarw)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Week 4 Lectures: Political Parties
Lecture Videos:
1. Why (two) parties? (19:24)

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Sp8M9YQtwkw)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp8M9YQtwkw)
2. The evolution of American parties (21:32)

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=k9IXECPz8lQ)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IXECPz8lQ)
3. The modern Democratic & Republican parties (23:37)

v=932LzAe1YVo)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=932LzAe1YVo)
4. The faces of parties (17:42)

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=3vwUXHAXgQU)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vwUXHAXgQU)
Lecture Slides for Notetaking:
1. Why (two) parties? (https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9303026/download?wrap=1)
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9303026/download?wrap=1)
2. The evolution of American parties
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9303023/download?wrap=1)
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9303023/download?wrap=1)
3. The modern Democratic & Republican parties
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9303024/download?wrap=1)
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9303024/download?wrap=1)
4. The faces of parties (https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9303025/download?wrap=1)
(https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24631/files/9303025/download?wrap=1)
Supplementary Videos:
1. A look back at the 1968 DNC from 1984:
A look back at the 1968 Democratic Convention
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=aUKzSsVmnpY)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUKzSsVmnpY)
2. A (humorous) look at 2016 DNC & RNC attendees:
Democrats vs. Republicans (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HyXiu927WU)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HyXiu927WU)
Week 4 Readings: Political Parties
The following readings are assigned for this week.
Please be sure to read the entire chapter.
American Government Chapter 9: Political Parties
(https://openstax.org/books/american-
government-2e/pages/9-introduction)
Friedersdorf, Conor. “How the Party Decided on Trump
(https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/how-gop-influencers-cued-voters-to-choosedonald-trump/480294/) .” The Atlantic

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