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Schedule

Section One: - Introduction (Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens)

Section Two: - Texas within the National Governing Landscape: Federalism - Texas within the National Political Landscape: Political Culture

Section Three: The Texas Constitution and Local Governments - The Texas Constitution - Balanced Government - City Charters, Counties and Special Districts

Section Four: Liberties and Rights - The Texas Bill of Rights - The 14th Amendment

Week Five: The Texas Legislature - The Legislature: Definition and Historical Background. - The Legislature - Texas Constitutional Design - Parties in the Texas Legislature

Week Six: Local Legislatures - County Commissioner Courts - City Councils - Boards

Week Seven: The Power of the Purse - State Budgeting - Local Budgeting - State and Local Economic Policymaking

Week Eight: The Texas Executive - Constitutional Design / Mayors and City Managers - The Executive: Texas Constitutional Design - The Texas Governor

Weel Eight: Local Executives and the Bureaucracy - County Judges, Mayors and City Managers - The Texas Bureaucracy

Week Nine: The Management of Elections and Political Parties in the State - The Texas Secretary of State - Counties - Local Elections - Texas Political Parties

Week Ten: Education Policy and Health and Human Services - Independent School Districts

Week Eleven: The Texas Judiciary - Constitutional Design / City and County Courts - Judicial Elections

Week Twelve: Judicial Elections /

Week Thirteen: The Texas Criminal Justice System Week Fourteen: Political Parties

Week Fifteen: Organized Interests in the State

Week Five: Parties and Legislative and City Council Elections

- Texas Politics: [|Political Parties]

- Texas Politics: [|Voting Campaign and Elections]

- [|Texas Legislative Council]

- [|Guide to Texas Legislative Information]

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Week Six: Interests Groups and Committees in the State and Local Legislative Bodies

- Texas Politics: [|Interest Groups]

- Texas House of Representatives: [|Committees]

- Texas Senate: [|Committees]

Week Seven: Economic Policy Making and Budgeting

- Texas Politics: [|Political Economy]

- [|Legislative Budget Board]

- Budget 101: [|A Guide to the Budgetary Process in Texas]

- Texas Enterprise Fund

- TIRZ

- [|Greater Houston Partnership]

- [|The Economic Development Alliance for Brazoria County]

Week Seven: State and Local Executive Branches

- Wikipedia: [|List of Current State Governors]

- [|National Governors Association]

Week Eight: The Management of Elections - The Texas Secretary of State

- Texas Politics: [|Voting Campaign and Elections]

- Website: [|Texas Secretary of State – Elections Division].

- Brazoria County Clerk - [|Elections Division]

- [|Voting Rights Act].

- [|About Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act].

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Week Ten: Education Policy and Health and Human Services

- Texas Constitution: [|Article Seven]

- Website: [|Texas Education Agency]

- Website: [|Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board].

- Texas House: [|Public Education Committee].

- Texas Senate: [|Committee on Education].

- LBB: [|Financing Public Education in Texas].

- LBB: [|Financing Higher Education in Texas].

- Website: [|Texas Health and Human Services Commission]

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Week Eleven: State and Local Judiciary

- [|Understanding Federal and State Courts]

- [|Comparing Federal and State Courts]

- Wikipedia: [|State Courts]

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Week Twelve: The Texas Judiciary - Constitutional Design / City and County Courts

- Texas Politics: [|The Justice System]

- Texas Constitution: [|Article Five]

- [|Texas Courts Online]

- TCO: [|Judicial Information Program]

Week Fifteen: Judicial Elections / The Texas Criminal Justice System

- Brennan Center for Justice: [|State Judicial Elections]

- AJS: [|Judicial Selection in the States]

- AJS: [|Judicial Campaign and Elections: Texas]

- Judgepedia: [|Texas Judicial Elections, 2012].

- [|Texas Attorney General].

- [|Texas Department of Public Safety]

- [|Texas Department of Criminal Justice]

- [|Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles]

- [|Brazoria County Sherriff’s Office]

- [|Alvin Police Department]

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