地域政治C（アメリカにおける憲法と政治）
担当教員
単位数・配当学期・曜日・時限
2単位 夏学期 集中講義
内容・進め方・主要文献等
This seminar provides an overview of the constitutional and political development of the United States from the nation’s origin to today. The framers of the U.S. Constitution agreed on many important innovations in governance, including the creation of a large representative republic with a novel system of separated powers; the refusal to establish a national church; and the use of a written constitution to place limits on governmental powers. But the Constitution was also a compromise among powerful groups with very different views on economic development, on slavery, on federalism, on governmental powers and purposes, and other topics. American constitutional development has since continued to be shaped by competing political visions, advanced by major parties and by social movements, about what the Constitution’s basic goals and principles are, what policies are appropriate, and in what ways the Constitution should be preserved or amended. Dominant understandings of the Constitution have shifted when different parties and movements have come to power. The Constitution was most dramatically altered after the Civil War, when three amendments ended slavery and expanded national powers to secure basic rights. Many believe it was also effectively transformed during Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’ Great Society, and perhaps also the “Reagan Revolution” of the 1980s. We will consider whether the election of Barack Obama means the start of a new era in American constitutional development. Seminar readings will feature primary sources such as statements of American presidents and congressional leaders, judicial opinions, party platforms, and speeches by social movement leaders. Those readings will come from the primary text, Isaac Kramnick and Theodore Lowi’s American Political Thought. Context for understanding these primary sources will be provided by reading parts of Lowi’s End of Liberalism and End of the Republican Era and my book Civic Ideals.(This lecture is made possible by the generous support from the Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation commemorating the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the A. Barton Hepburn Professorship in American Constitution, History, and Diplomacy, currently called American Political and Diplomatic History at the Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo.)
教材等
Isaac Kramnick and Theodore J. Lowi, American Political Thought: A Norton Anthology (W.W. Norton & Co., 2009). For recommended readings: Rogers M. Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (Yale University Press, 1997). Theodore J. Lowi, The End of Liberalism, 2d. ed. (W.W. Norton, 1979). Theodore J. Lowi, The End of the Republican Era (University of Oklahoma Press 2006).
成績評価の方法
詳細は未定(筆記試験・平常点・レポート)