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EnglishSelf Study, Virtual ClassroomVideo and Text Based

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The Syllabus

  • Let's Get Started
  • Survey from Trinity College
  • How to Take an edX Course
  • Grading and Discussion Board Policies

  • Introduction: The Public’s View of Supreme Court Decisions & the “Political Construction of Law”
  • The Significance of the Death of Justice Antonin Scalia for the Court
  • The Ideological Makeup of the Court
  • The Issues
  • Evidence that the Court Issue Didn’t Matter in 2016
  • Evidence that the Court Issue Did Matter in 2016
  • The 2016 President Campaign and the Court
  • Week 1 Discussion Forum (1 Question)
  • Week 1 Assessment (2 Questions)

  • FDR’s first term and the Court
  • The Nature of the Court Packing Plan
  • The Defeat of the Court-Packing Plan and the Constitutional Revolution of 1937
  • The Making of a Roosevelt Court
  • The Roosevelt Court and Civil Rights
  • Week 2 Discussion Forum (1 Question)
  • Week 2 Assessment (2 Questions)

  • Nixon’s 1968 “Law-and- Order” Campaign, Incomplete
  • Nixon’s Victory, Incomplete
  • Nixon’s Justices, Incomplete
  • Nixon’s Judicial Policy, Incomplete
  • Nixon’s Court and Its Political Consequences, Incomplete
  • Week 3 Discussion Forum (1 Question), Incomplete
  • Week 3 Assessment (2 Questions)

  • Reagan’s Landslide Election, Incomplete
  • Reagan and Bush I’s Justices, Incomplete
  • Social Conservatives and the Limitations of the Rehnquist Court, Incomplete
  • George W. Bush, the Social Issue in 2004 Presidential Election, and the Curious Choice of Harriett Miers, Incomplete
  • The Roberts Court, Incomplete
  • Week 4 Discussion Forum (1 Question), Incomplete
  • Week 4 Assessment (2 Questions)

  • The Selection of Neil Gorsuch and the Concept of a Minority Justice, Incomplete
  • The Continuation of a Cookie-Cutter Court, Incomplete
  • Contemplating a Trump Court, Incomplete
  • Week 5 Discussion Forum (1 Question), Incomplete
  • Week 5 Assessment (2 Questions)

  • The Supreme Court and the Midterm Elections 2018
  • Post Election Wrap Up

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