Seminar 3

To help you answer the third question for SEMINAR 3 : read about the Supreme Court's recent cases.

As mentionned last week, I've added an exercise on the Tea Party movement for seminar 3.

Please listen to the BBC podcast from BBC's Americana series.

If you'd rather download the podcast, I've uploaded it here.

Answer these questions briefly :

1. Summarize the Tea-Party activists' platform.

2. How do they view the Constitution ?

3. What does Professor Jill Lepore say about this?

for more on the Tea Party movement :

• a very brief presentation of Jill Lepore's book click here
• a very long article in the New Yorker
• coverage by NPR on religion and the Tea Party Movement

Note :

Fiscal conservative = against high taxes and the deficit and opposed to government spending to fund social services.

Social conservative= against abortion, gay marriage, secularization of American society (bans on school prayers etc...)