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Government 2301 CV Honors Section

Fall 2004

Exam 1 Study Guide

The following terms are taken largely from the lectures to help you organize your studying. This list should not be considered to be comprehensive. Additional study terms can be found at the end of each chapter in the We the People text.

The Founding and Declaration

Authoritarian government

Totalitarian government

Republicanism

Virtue and corruption

Cycles in history

Classical Liberalism

Republic v direct democracy

Magna Charta

English Bill of Rights

John Locke

State of nature

Law of Nature

Social Contract theory

Natural law and natural rights

Trusteeship theory of government

Stamp Act

Virginia Declaration of Rights

Declaration of Independence

 

The Constitution

French and Indian War

Articles of Confederation

Problems with the Articles

Annapolis Convention

Shay’s rebellion

Beard v. Roach Interpretations

Philadelphia Convention

Virginia Plan

New Jersey Plan

Connecticut Compromise

Three-fifths Compromise

McCulloch v. Maryland

delegated power

Express powers

Necessary and proper clause

commerce clause

Supremacy clause

Due Process Clause

Full faith and credit clause

Privileges and immunities clause

Commerce clause

Constitution; know what each article does

Article 1 section 8

Electoral college

Judicial review

Marbury v. Madison

Amending the Constitution: how to do it

Federalist 10 and 51

Federalist 39

Factions

Tyranny

Quasi legislative power

Quasi judicial power

Checks and balances: theory and specifics

Separation of powers: theory and specifics

Federalism

Layer cake federalism

Marble cake federalism

AFDC v. welfare reform

New federalism

Grants in aid

Block grants

Unfounded mandates

Categorical grants

Legislative supremacy

Habeas corpus

Bill of attainder

Original intent

 

Citizenship

Bills of Rights: know the first 10 amendments

13,14 and 15th amendments

equal protection clause

due process clause

privileges and immunities clause

civil liberties

civil rights

substantive liberties

procedural liberties

Barron v. Baltimore

Slaughterhouse Cases

incorporation

nationalizing the bill of rights

Establishment Clause

Free exercise clause

Engel v. Vitale

Clear and present danger test

Fighting words and speech codes

Virginia v. Black

Lemon v. Kurtzman

Locke et al. v Davey

Lemon Test

Patriot Act

Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas

Strict scrutiny doctrine

Judicial restraint

Judicial activism

Plessy v. Ferguson

Separate but equal

Brown v. Board of Education

Charlotte v. Mecklenberg

Griswold v. Connecticut

Right to privacy

Penumbra of rights argument

9th amendment

Roe v. Wade

Webster v. Reproductive Services

Affirmative action

Bakke case

Hopwood Case

10% rule

Diversity argument for affirmative action

Grutter v. Bollinger

Gratz v. Bollinger

Title VII

Intermediate Scrutiny

The War Against Terrorism and Iraq War

Bush

Donald Rumsfeld

Colin Powell

Condalezza Rice

Office of Homeland Security

Tom Ridge

Bin Laden

Taliban

Tony Blair

NATO

Afghanistan

Iran

Iraq

Al Qaeda

 

Be familiar with the general political themes running through the movies that we discussed in class.

 

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