The Tea Party

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The Tea Party Movement and the Perils of Popular Originalism

The Tea Party movement presents something of a curiosity for constitutional theory because it combines originalist ideology and popular constitutionalist methods. Like minotaurs, werewolves, and other half-man, half-animal hybrids of myth and legend, the Tea Party\u27s hybrid of originalism and popular constitutionalism serves to expose the limitations of both sources upon which it draws. Although originalists assert that interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning would take politics out of constitutional law, the Tea Party movement shows that originalism also provides a powerful political rhetoric. Moreover, while popular constitutionalists assert that democracy would be advanced by empowering the people to effectuate their constitutional understandings through ordinary politics, the Tea Party movement shows that when a popular movement advances a narrow, nationalist understanding of the Constitution, popular constitutionalism can also serve to restrict popular democrac

The Boston Tea Party

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Obama\u27s Job Approval Drops In NH, Congress and Tea Party Unpopular 10/23/13

In the wake of the government shutdown and a struggling economy, President Obama’s overall job approval and economic approval ratings have declined to their lowest levels in two years in New Hampshire. Nine of ten Granite Staters disapprove of the job Congress is doing. Support for the Tea Party has dropped and half of New Hampshire residents think the Tea Party is bad for the Republican Party

Reading the Tea Leaves: An Exploration of the Origins, Composition, and Influence of the Tea Party

The Tea Party has become a powerful force in American politics. Emerging in early 2009, the Tea Party has elicited mass support among the public with important implications for public policy and electoral politics. However, there remains significant debate over the political characteristics and motivations of Tea Party supporters. The emergence of the Tea Party has also led to speculation that supporters will form a third party. Using survey data collected in 2010 and 2011, this dissertation examines the relationship between Tea Party and third party supporters. Evidence is found that although Tea Party and third party supporters disapprove of President Obama and hold negative views of the economy, the two groups are fundamentally different in terms of their partisanship and political attitudes. Tea Party supporters are found to be ideologically conservative Republicans, while third party supporters are shown to be political independents holding negative opinions of both parties. Using American National Election Studies data, this dissertation also explains the motivations behind Tea Party support. Evidence is found that Tea Party support is motivated by traditional moral values, racial resentment, negative views of President Obama, negative opinions of immigrants, and libertarianism. This dissertation also examines the emotional component of Tea Party support finding that strong feelings of anger and fear, related to perceptions of the state of the country, motivates support. Finally, this dissertation analyzes an aggregation of public opinion data measuring opinions of the Tea Party from 2010 to 2011. Support for the Tea Party is found to have declined from 2010 through the end of 2011, with the most precipitous decline occurring among its most ardent supporters. Ultimately, the findings of this dissertation suggest that the emergence of the Tea Party has created a rift within the Republican Party between the moderate and ideologically extreme elements, constituting a barrier to legislative compromise

The Tea Party and the Constitution

This Article considers the Tea Party as a constitutional movement. I explore the Tea Party\u27s ambitious effort to transform the role of the Constitution in American life, examining both the substance of the Tea Party\u27s constitutional claims and the tactics movement leaders have embraced for advancing these claims. No major social movement in modern American history has so explicitly tied its reform agenda to the Constitution. From the time when the Tea Party burst onto the American political scene in early 2009, its supporters claimed in no uncertain terms that much recent federal government action overstepped constitutionally defined limitations. A belief that the Constitution establishes clear boundaries on federal power is at the core of the Tea Party\u27s constitutional vision. Yet the most distinctive-and I believe ultimately the most significant-aspect of the Tea Party\u27s constitutional vision is not necessarily the specifics of its constitutional claims (these ideas have long been common currency in conservative and libertarian circles), but the distinctly non-judicial and participatory approach the Tea Party has taken to its project of constitutional reform. The Tea Party offers a powerful case study what a recent generation of scholarship has identified as popular constitutionalism. Its constitutional agenda has little role for the courts. Tea Party activists have been strikingly successful in locating arenas of constitutional activism that do not depend upon the formal apparatus of the law, such as judges, lawyers, and complex legal doctrine. Rather than litigation, the Tea Party has pursued an agenda of constitutional practice focused on educational outreach and political mobilization. After describing the key elements of Tea Party constitutionalism, with a focus on the extrajudicial mechanisms through which the Tea Party has advanced its constitutional agenda, I conclude with an assessment of the possible impact of the Tea Party on constitutional law and practice, as well as its implications for future scholarship on popular constitutional mobilization

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEA PARTY STRATEGY IN TEACHING READING OF ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TO THE ELEVENTH GRADERS

Abstrak Membaca adalah salah satu skil yang wajib dikuasai oleh siswa. Akan tetapi, di dalam kelas membaca, teruatama membaca teks analytical exposition, siswa kurang motivasi dan merasa jenuh. Akibatnya, mereka kesulitan memahami teks yang mereka baca. Untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut, guru perlu menggunakan teknik mengajar yang dapat memotivasi siswa dalam membaca sekaligus mengaktifkan background knowledge mereka. Dalam hal ini, guru dapat menggunakan sebuah strategi pre-reading yang dikenal dengan Tea Party. Penelitian ini dirancang untuk mendeskripsikan penerapan strategi Tea Party dalam pengajaran membaca teks analytical exposition kepada siswa kelas sebelas. Pokok permasalahan dari penelitian ini antara lain: (1) Bagaimana penerapan strategi Tea Party dalam pengajaran membaca teks analytical exposition kepada siswa kelas sebelas? (2) Bagaimana respon siswa terhadap penerapan strategi Tea Party tersebut? Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian descriptive qualitative. Data-data disajikan secara deskriptif. Data pertama yakni tentang penerapan strategi Tea Party, diperoleh dari observasi sebanyak dua kali. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah unstructured field notes yang mendeskripsikan keseluruhan proses belajar mengajar. Data kedua, respon siswa terhadap penerapan strategi Tea Party, diperoleh dari hasil open-ended questionnaire. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa guru yang bersangkutan telah berhasil menerapkan strategi Tea Party. Motivasi siswa dalam membaca meningkat dan mereka dapat memahami teks analytical exposition yang mereka baca. Lebih lagi, hasil kuesioner menunjukkan bahwa siswa tertarik untuk membaca teks analytical exposition dan strategi Tea Party sangat membantu mereka dalam memahami teks tersebut. Maka, penerapan penerapan strategi Tea Party memberi banyak keuntungan yang positif bagi pengajaran membaca khususnya membaca teks analytical exposition. Kata Kunci: Membaca, teks analytical exposition, strategi Tea Party Abstract Reading is one of four main skills that students have to master. However, in reading class, especially reading of analytical exposition, the students lack of motivation and get bored. As a result, they feel difficult to comprehend the text they read. To solve this problem, teacher needs to use a reading strategy which can motivate the students to read as well as activate their background knowledge. Due to the need, the teacher can use a pre-reading strategy named Tea Party. This research is designed to describe the implementation of Tea Party strategy in teaching reading of analytical exposition to the eleventh graders. The points of this research are on (1) How is the implementation of Tea Party strategy in teaching reading of analytical exposition to the eleventh graders of SMAN 1 Karangbinangun? (2) How are the students’ responses toward the implementation of Tea Party strategy? This research is descriptive qualitative research. The data were served in descriptive details. The first data which was about the implementation of Tea Party strategy obtained through two-time observations. The instrument used was unstructured field notes which describe the whole teaching and learning process done by the teacher in the class. The second data, the students’ responses toward the implementation of Tea Party strategy, was obtained using open-ended questionnaire. This research showed that the teacher implemented Tea Party strategy successfully. The students’ motivation on reading increased and they could comprehend the analytical exposition text they had read. Furthermore, the result of questionnaire showed that the students felt interested in reading the text. It also showed that Tea Party was helpful to students in comprehending the text. Therefore, the implementation of Tea Party strategy gives positive benefits to teaching reading especially reading of analytical exposition. Keywords: Reading, analytical exposition, Tea Party strateg

The Tea Party in American Politics

The Tea Party has come to prominence in the last several years as a force to be reckoned with in American politics. The Tea Party movement has affected major electoral races, publicly supporting some candidates and renouncing others, leading to placement of Tea Party-supporting representatives in Congress and losses by some highly favored opponents of the Tea Party. The movement relies on a great amount of support from Republicans, yet acts in ways that could classify it as an independent movement. In order to answer the question of what, exactly, the Tea Party movement is, and what it has the potential to become, this article examines survey data to compare attitudes and beliefs between Tea Party supporters and the rest of the population. The data point to a classification of the Tea Party as a faction of the Republican Party, with the potential for support independent of the major parties as a possible third party in the future

Tea Party

It was 1966 and I was seven years old. We lived in Berkeley, California. I was dressed up for a birthday party. I had on a white dress with frills around the sleeves and the hem. My white socks were ringed at the top with a thin strip of lace. I had folded them down so that the lace neatly encircled my ankle, right above my black patent-leather mary janes. I even had on my best underwear that had fringes of lace all across the bottom. My parents were driving me to the party. They said that we would leave the house a little bit early because they had to stop somewhere on the way. They were not dressed up like I was. They both wore jeans and sandals. It didn\u27t matter to me, I was the only one going to the party. ~ article excerpt