AMERICAN GOVERNMENT Political Change and Institutional Development

1.	The Origins of American Political Principles
2.	The Revolution and the Constitution
3.	Federalism and American Political Development
4.	Political Socialization and Public Opinion
5.	The Mass Media and the Political Agenda
6.	Interest Groups and Social Movement
7.	Political Parties
8.	Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
9.	Congress: Lawmaking and Domestic Presentation
10.	The President: Governing in Uncertain Times
11.	Bureaucracy: Redesigning Government for the Twenty-First Century
12.	The Federal Courts: Activism versus Restraint
13.	Civil Liberties and Civil Rights: Balance or Conflict?
14.	Government, the Economy, and Domestic Policy
15.	America’s Place in a Dangerous World

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Chapter One: The Origins of American Political Principles

Weblinks

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-politics.html
The above link provides an overview of Aristotle’s basic notion of political science as the confluence of political philospophy and ethics.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral.html
The above link provides a concise statement of the basic issues and problems of society as conceptualized by Hobbes’s moral and poltical philosophy.

http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/polphil.html
This link provides a basic level of resources on a wide range of sources within the discipline of political philosophy itself.

www.politicaltheory.info
This site provides access to the American Philosophical Association from which users can access sources relating to questions of political philosophy.

www.radicalacademy.com/philclassliberalism.htm
This site articlutes a view that modern libertarianism is the philosphical inheritance of classical liberalism.

www.answers.com/topic/classical-liberalism
On the other hand, this site argues against the view that libertarianism is the natural outcome of philosophical classical liberalism.

www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=370
This site discusses classical liberalism in an anecdotal journalistic manner stressing the individualist imperative of the political philospophy.

www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-early.htm
This site provides a series of articles on the American colonial settlement patterns.

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/colonial/colonial.html
In a more wholistic effort, this site provides a complete timeline as well as articles dealing with social, political and econmic issues realting to American colonial settlement.