Talk:United States Government

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Lord Emsworth, did you use AP guidelines for this book ? If so, we could use that to promote it in a tagline, "written for AP history" or something. --Karl Wick

it has been a few years since i took ap us government in high school, but our class definately covered a good number of high profile supreme court cases (brown v. board of education, engel v. vitale, roe v. wade, etc) that aren't mentioned here. we also wrote essays about topics i've now forgotten. i'm not sure if the burden of explaining how to write the essays should fall to the textbook or to the instructor. perhaps if you're going for some kind of AP certification you could check out AP study guides from the public library or request old tests from the college board (my high school teachers did this). --Thepedestrian 21:59, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

This needs to be moved to U.S. Constitution and Government. --Jiang 04:12, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Or simply United States Government. (The Constitution is included.) --Jiang 04:03, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

This should be called "U.S. Federal Government." - Maurreen, Oct 2004

It's not abundently clear to me exactly what the intended idea behind this text was. If it is an exposition on the federal system of government in the U.S., I don't quite understand the approach, which appears to focus on the Constitution and its provisions. If it is intended as a Constitutional History or Constitutional Law text, then it needs to be approached not on a section by section basis, but through recognized themes, like Executive Powers or Federal v. States Rights. DSYoungEsq 22:07, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Further on this subject: Part II should be reworked. If I understand the structure of the book, Part I is the history of why we have our current Constitution, Part II is an explanation of what the Constitution says, Part III is an analysis of how the federal government is set up under the constitution, and Part IV is intended to be a discussion of what issues have arisen under that structure as time has passed. But Part II has things in it (the first two sections) that really belong in Part III, etc. DSYoungEsq 17:59, 6 February 2006 (UTC)