Review Sheet #1

Samples from the introductory sections of the course including American political culture, American constitutional system, civil liberties, civil rights, and chapters in the Wasserman book.

political efficacy                                                   
John Locke and government
democracy
Pentagon Papers case (1971) and Progressive magazine case (1979)
New Jersey v. TLO (1985)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Miller v. California (1973)
natural rights, civil liberties, civil rights
majority rule and minority rights
bicameralism
separation of powers and checks and balances
Federalist Papers
federalism
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
McCarthyism
NAACP
political culture
"clear and present danger" test
symbolic speech
censorship/prior restraint
Mapp v. Ohio (1963)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th Amendments
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (1994)
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
13th, 14th, 15th, 19th Amendments
Equal Pay Act (1963)
comparable worth
affirmative action
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Voting Rights Act (1965)
Charles Beard's view of the Constitution

This review sheet may be revised prior to the exam so check it periodically.