What is a republic? What is Direct Democracy?
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• What is a republic?• What is Direct
Democracy?• What does the 14th
Amendment say? (use Constitution in back of book)
• What is the definition of the Free-Exercise Clause? And, give an example. (110)
• What is the definition of Establishment Clause? And, give an example. (110)
• What is the wall of separation? (111)
• What is the exclusionary rule? (114)
• What was the decision of the Supreme Court case Mapp v. Ohio (121)
• What did the Supreme Court case of Miranda v. Arizona decide? (121)
• What did the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright (1964) state? (121)
• What did the Supreme Court case of Rasul v. Bush (2004) state? (121)
• What did the Supreme Court case of Schenck v. United States (1919) state? (109)
• What is due process of law? (102)
• What does equal protection of the laws mean? (102)
• What is selective incorporation and how is Gitlow v. New York an example of selective incorporation? (102-103)
• What did the Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson decide? (134)
• What is the strict scrutiny test used for? (126)
• What does Federalism mean? (28)
• What is de jure segregation? (132)• What is de facto segregation? (132)• What is civil disobedience? (135)
• What was the ruling in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education? (134)
• Scholars say the Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education set the guidelines for all subsequent cases involving school segregation. List the Guidelines it set. The Four Bullet Points on page 133)
• USE THE TOP OF PAGE 138:– What was the 1957 Voting Act?– What was the 1960 Voting Act?– What was the 1964 Voting Act, public
accommodations Act, Schools Act, Employment Act, and Federal Funds Act?
– What was the 1965 Act on Voter Registration and Literacy Tests?
– What was the 1968 Housing Act– What was the 1972 Education Act?– What was the 1988 Discrimination Act?– What was the 1991 Discrimination Act?
• What was the decision in Reed v. Reed (1971) (page 142)?
• What was the decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) (page 143)
• What was the decision in Roe v. Wade (1973) (page 143)
• What was the decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)? (143)
• What was the decision in Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) (143)?
• What is Federalism? (28)
• What is devolution? (49)
• What does sovereignty mean? (51)
• What is a Unitary System of government? (51)
• What is a confederation or confederal system of government? (51)
• What is a Federal System of Government? (51)
• What is a Federal Regime? (51)
• What is the “necessary and proper” clause? (56)
• What is nullification? (56)
• What is a categorical grant? (63)
• What is revenue sharing? (63)
• What is condition of aid? (66)
• What is a mandate? (66)
• What is political culture? (77)
• What are the 5 important elements in the American view of the political system? (77)
• Who is Alexis de Tocqueville and why did he feel that a democratic republic took root in the United States but not in other countries that copied the United States Constitution? (76)
• What is Civic Duty? (80)• What is Civic
Competence? (80)
• Table 4.1 – Which country has the greatest percentage of people who say they are very patriotic? (81)
• Table 4.3 – Which country has the highest percentage of people believing it is the government’s responsibility to take care of the very poor who can’t take care of themselves? (82)
• What is the difference between having an orthodox view versus having a progressive view? (86)
• What are the six goals of government listed in the pre-amble to the Constitution? (155)