The History Project - University of California, Davis
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12.1-Democracy - 1.000 the influence of ancient Greek, Roman, English, and leading European political thinkers such as John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Nicolo Machiavelli, and William Blackstone on the development American government
12.1-Democracy - 2.000 the character of American democracy and its promise and perils as articulated by Alexis de Tocqueville
12.1-Democracy - 3.000 how the U.S. Constitution reflects a balance between the classical republican concern with promotion of the public good and the classical liberal concern with protecting individual rights, and how the basic premises of liberal constitutionalism and democ
12.1-Democracy - 4.000 how the Founders’ realistic view of human nature led directly to a constitutional system that limited the power of the governors and the governed as articulated in The Federalist
12.1-Democracy - 5.000 the systems of separated and shared powers; the role of organized interests (The Federalist Number 10); checks and balances (The Federalist Number 51); the importance of an independent judiciary (The Federalist Number 78); enumerated powers; rule of law;
12.1-Democracy - 6.000 the Bill of Rights as a document limiting the power of the federal government and state governments
12.1-Econ - 1.000 the causal relationship between scarcity and the need for choices
12.1-Econ - 2.000 opportunity cost and marginal benefit and marginal cost
12.1-Econ - 3.000 the difference between monetary and non-monetary incentives and how changes in incentives cause changes in behavior
12.1-Econ - 4.000 the role of private property as an incentive in conserving and improving scarce resources, including renewable and non-renewable natural resources
12.1-Econ - 5.000 the role of a market economy in establishing and preserving political and personal liberty (e.g., the works of Adam Smith)"
12.2-Democracy - 1.000 the meaning and importance of each of the rights guaranteed under the Bill of Rights and how each is secured (e.g., freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition, privacy)
12.2-Democracy - 2.000 how economic rights are secured and what their importance is to the individual and to society (e.g., right to acquire, use, transfer, and dispose of property; right to choose one’s work; join or not join labor unions; copyright and patent)
12.2-Democracy - 3.000 the legal obligations of obeying the law, serving as a juror, and paying taxes
12.2-Democracy - 4.000 the obligation of civic-mindedness including voting, being informed on civic issues, volunteering and performing public service, and serving in the military or alternative service
12.2-Democracy - 5.000 the reciprocity between rights and obligations, i.e., why enjoyment of one’s rights entails respect for the rights of others
12.2-Democracy - 6.000 how one becomes a citizen of the United States, including the process of naturalization (e.g., literacy, language, and other requirements)
12.2-Econ - 1.000 the relationship of the concept of incentives to the law of supply and the relationship of the concept of incentives and substitutes to the law of demand
12.2-Econ - 10.000 the economic principles that guide the location of agricultural production and industry and the spatial distribution of transportation and retailing facilities
12.2-Econ - 2.000 the effect of changes in supply and/or demand on the relative scarcity, price and quantity of particular products
12.2-Econ - 3.000 the role of property rights, competition, and profit in a market economy
12.2-Econ - 4.000 how prices reflect the relative scarcity of goods and services and perform the allocative function in a market economy
12.2-Econ - 5.000 the process by which competition among buyers and sellers determines a market clearing price
12.2-Econ - 6.000 the effect of price controls on buyers and sellers
12.2-Econ - 7.000 the role of domestic and international competition in a market economy in terms of goods and services produced, and the quality, quantity, and price of those products
12.2-Econ - 8.000 the role of profit as the incentive to the entrepreneurs in a market economy
12.2-Econ - 9.000 the functions of the financial markets
12.3-Democracy - 1.000 how civil society provides opportunities for individuals to associate for social, cultural, religious, economic, and political purposes
12.3-Democracy - 2.000 how civil society makes it possible for people, individually or in association with others, to bring their influence to bear on government in ways other than voting and elections
12.3-Democracy - 3.000 the historical role of religion and religious diversity
12.3-Democracy - 4.000 comparisons between the relationship of government and civil society in constitutional democracies and the relationship of government and civil society in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes
12.3-Econ - 1.001 how the role of government in a market economy often includes providing for national defense, addressing environmental concerns, defining and enforcing property rights, attempting to make markets more competitive, and protecting consumer rights
12.3-Econ - 2.000 the factors that may cause the costs of government actions to outweigh the benefits
12.3-Econ - 3.000 the aims of government fiscal policies (taxation, borrowing, and spending) and their influence on production, employment, and price levels
12.3-Econ - 4.000 the aims and tools of monetary policy and their influence on economic activity (e.g., the Federal Reserve)
12.4-Democracy - 1.000 Article I of the U
12.4-Democracy - 2.000 the process through which the U
12.4-Democracy - 3.000 the student’s current representatives in the legislative branch of the national government
12.4-Democracy - 4.000 Article II of the U
12.4-Democracy - 5.000 Article III of the U
12.4-Democracy - 6.000 the selection and confirmation of Supreme Court judges
12.4-Econ - 1.000 the operations of the labor market, including the circumstances surrounding the establishment of principal American labor unions, procedures used to gain benefits for its members, the effect of unionization, the minimum wage, and unemployment insurance
12.4-Econ - 2.000 the current economy and labor market including the types of goods and services produced, types of skills necessary, the effect of rapid technological change, and the impact of international competition
12.4-Econ - 3.000 wage differences among jobs and professions using the laws of demand and supply and the concept of productivity
12.4-Econ - 4.000 the effects of international mobility of capital and labor on the U.S. economy
12.5-Democracy - 1.000 the changing interpretations of the Bill of Rights over time, including the basic freedoms (religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly) articulated in the First Amendment, and the due process and equal protection of the law clauses of the Fourteenth
12.5-Democracy - 2.000 judicial activism and judicial restraint and the effects of each policy over the decades (e.g., Warren vS. Rehnquist courts)
12.5-Democracy - 3.000 the effect of the interpretations of the U.S. Constitution, including Marbury v. Madison , McCulloch v. Maryland, and U.S. v. Nixon, with emphasis on the arguments espoused by each side in these cases
12.5-Democracy - 4.000 the controversies that have resulted over changing interpretations of civil rights, including Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena and Un
12.5-Econ - 1.000 distinguishing between nominal and real data
12.5-Econ - 2.000 defining, calculating and explaining the significance of an unemployment rate, the number of new jobs created monthly, an inflation or deflation rate, and a rate of economic growth
12.5-Econ - 3.000 distinguishing between short-term and long-term interest rates and explaining their relative significance
12.6-Democracy - 1.000 the origin, development, and role of political parties noting those occasional periods in which there was only one major party or were more than two major parties
12.6-Democracy - 2.000 the history of the presidential candidate nomination process and increasing importance of primaries in general elections
12.6-Democracy - 3.000 the role of polls, campaign advertising and the controversies over campaign funding
12.6-Democracy - 4.000 the means that citizens use to participate in the political process (e.g., voting, campaigning, lobbying, filing a legal challenge, demonstrating, petitioning, picketing, running for political office)
12.6-Democracy - 5.000 the features of direct democracy in numerous states such as the process of referendums and recall elections
12.6-Democracy - 6.000 trends in voter turnout, the causes and effects of reapportionment and redistricting, with special attention to spatial districting and the rights of minorities, and the function of the Electoral College
12.6-Econ - 1.000 the gains in consumption and production efficiency from trade with emphasis on the main products and changing geographic patterns of twentieth century trade among countries in the Western hemisphere
12.6-Econ - 2.000 the reasons for and the effect of trade restrictions in the Great Depression compared with the present day arguments among labor, business, and political leaders over the effects of free trade on the economic and social interests of various groups of Ame
12.6-Econ - 3.000 the changing role of international political borders and territorial sovereignty in a global economy
12.6-Econ - 4.000 explain foreign exchange, how exchange rates are determined, and the effects of the dollar gaining (or losing) value relative to other currencies a strong or weak dollar
12.7-Democracy - 1.000 how conflicts between levels of government and branches of government are resolved
12.7-Democracy - 2.000 the major responsibilities and sources of revenue for state and local governments
12.7-Democracy - 3.000 reserved powers and concurrent powers of state governments
12.7-Democracy - 4.000 the Ninth and Tenth Amendments and interpretations of the extent of the federal government's power
12.7-Democracy - 5.000 how public policy is formed, including the setting of the public agenda and how it is carried out through regulations and executive orders
12.7-Democracy - 6.000 the process of lawmaking at each of the three levels of government, including the role of lobbying and the media
12.7-Democracy - 7.000 the organization and jurisdiction of federal, state and local (e.g., California) courts, and the interrelationships between the federal state and local courts
12.7-Democracy - 8.000 the scope of presidential power and decision-making through the examination of case studies such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, passage of Great Society legislation, War Powers Act, Gulf War, and Bosnia
12.8-Democracy - 1.000 the meaning and importance of a free and responsible press
12.8-Democracy - 2.000 the role of electronic, broadcast, print media, and the Internet as means of communication in American politics
12.8-Democracy - 3.000 how public officials use the media to communicate with the citizenry and to shape public opinion
12.9-Democracy - 1.000 how the different philosophies and structures of feudalism, mercantilism, socialism, fascism, communism, monarchies, parliamentary systems, and constitutional liberal democracies influence economic policies, social welfare policies and human rights pract
12.9-Democracy - 2.000 the various ways power is distributed, shared, and limited in systems of shared powers and in parliamentary systems, including the influence and role of parliamentary leaders (e.g., William Gladstone, Margaret Thatcher)
12.9-Democracy - 3.000 the advantages and disadvantages of federal, confederal, and unitary systems of government
12.9-Democracy - 4.000 the consequences of conditions that gave rise to tyrannies during certain periods applied to at least two countries (e.g., Italy, Japan, Haiti, Nigeria, Cambodia)
12.9-Democracy - 5.000 the forms of illegitimate power that twentieth century African, Asian, and Latin American dictators used to gain and hold office and the conditions and interests that supported them
12.9-Democracy - 6.000 the ideologies, causes, stages, and outcomes of major Mexican, Central and South American revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries
12.9-Democracy - 7.000 the ideologies that give rise to communism, methods to maintain control, and the movements to overthrow such governments in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, including the role of individuals (e.g., Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Pope John Paul II, Lech Wale
12.9-Democracy - 8.000 the successes of relatively new democracies in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the ideas, leaders, and general societal conditions that have launched and sustained or failed to sustain them

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