POS 2041 Mid-Term Study Guide, Fall 2012
Please read the following disclaimer and information carefully:
The terms below come primarily from the readings; you are also responsible for
concepts, court cases, etc., that were covered in class lectures, regardless of whether
they appear on the list below. The list below is therefore not completely
comprehensive and should not be regarded as such. Students are responsible for
ALL material up through Civil Rights, which will be covered in lecture on 9
October (Public Opinion will not be included on this exam).
Greenberg & Page, Chapter 1
Democracy
Oligarchy
Monarchy
Direct Democracy
Representative Democracy
Popular Sovereignty
Majority Rule
Political Equality
Civil Rights
Social Contract
Political Liberty
Liberal Democracy
Pluralism
Democratic centralism
Bureaucracy
Majority Tyranny
Jim Crow
Political culture
Political socialization
Greenberg & Page, Chapter 2
Confederation
Constitution
Articles of Confederation
Republicanism
Tyranny
“18th century Republicanism” vs. “The
Democratic Ideal”
Unicameral
Bicameral
Stay Acts
Shay’s Rebellion
The Constitution Convention
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Connecticut Compromise
Electoral College
See: Table 2.2, Reading the Constitution
Elastic clause
Supremacy clause
Federal
Bill of Rights
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
Free enterprise
Federalists
Anti-federalists
Bill of Rights
Signing statement
Judicial review
Greenberg & Page Chapter 3
Federalism
Confederation
Unitary system
Supremacy clause
Tenth Amendment
Reservation clause
Concurrent powers
Horizontal federalism
Interstate compacts
Nationalist position
Necessary and proper clause
States’ rights position
Dual federalism
Nullification
Preemption
Civil War Amendments
Due process clause
Equal protection clause
Devolution
Cooperative federalism
Fiscal federalism
Grants-in-aid
Categorical grants
Block grants
General revenue sharing
Mandates
Greenberg & Page Chapter 4
Nativist
Urbanization
Industrialization
Sun Belt
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Median household income
Poverty line
Capitalism
Globalization
Core beliefs
Political culture
Political socialization
Populism
Greenberg & Page Chapter 15:
Civil liberties
Habeas corpus
Bill of attainder ex post facto law
Economic liberty
Full faith and credit
Contract clause
Due process clause
Selective incorporation
Privileges and immunities clause
Nationalizing incorporation
Ordinary scrutiny
Strict scrutiny
Political speech
Actions and symbolic speech
Suppression of free expression
Prior restraint
Obscenity
Free exercise clause
Establishment clause
The Lemon test
Exclusionary rule
Probable cause
Near v. Minnesota
New York Times Co. v. US (Pentagon
Papers)
Lemon v. Kurtzman
Miller v. California
Mapp v. Ohio
Death penalty
Dred Scott v. Sanford
McCarthyism / Red Scare
Gitlow v. New York
Texas v. Johnson
Reno v. ACLU (Communications
Decency Act)
Engle v. Vitale
Roe v. Wade
Gideon v. Wainwright
Miranda v. Arizona
Greenberg & Page Chapter 16:
Civil rights
Privileges and immunities clause
Due pocess clause
Equal protection clause
Jim Crow
Poll tax
Literacy test
Grandfather clause
White primaries
Strict scrutiny suspect classification
de jure discrimination
de fact discrimination
affirmative action
intermediate scrutiny
civil union
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
County Schools
Milliken v. Bradley
Civil Rights Act, 1964
Voting Rights Act, 1965
“Great Society”
Regents v. Bakke
Adarand v. Pena
Set-asides
Piscataway v. Taxman
Minor v. Happersett
U.S. v. Virginia
Bowers v. Hardwick
Lawrence v. Texas
Romer v. Evans
Defense of Marriage Act
Rourke, Chapter 1
Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act
De Tocqueville’s Democracy in
America.
Interstate commerce clause
Individual mandate
Adverse selection
Necessary and proper clause
Printz vs. United States
Wickard vs. Filburn
Regulation of inactivity
U.S. vs. Lopez
U.S. vs. Morrison
Rourke, Chapter 2:
Arizona’s immigration debate
“State intrusion into national policy or
permissible state action?”
United States v. Brewer (2010)
SB 1070
Division of powers
Concurrent powers
Civil rights
Rourke, Chapter 3:
“Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance
“Violation of the First Amendment or
Acceptable Traditional Expression?”
Elk Grove School District v. Newdow
(2004)
Establishment clause
Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
“Wall of separation”
“coercive” versus “historical statement”
Rourke, Chapter 4:
California’s gay marriage debate
“California’s Proposition 8 barring gay
marriages: Equal rights violation of
the US Constitution or valid state
law?”
Kristin M. Perry, et al v. Arnold
Schwarzenegger, et al
Proposition 8
Equal Protection Clause
California Family Code
Moral, social, legal consequences of
gay marraige
Rourke, Chapter 5:
Patriotic assimilation
Americanization vs. “New
Americanization”
Multiculturalism
Linguistic assimilation
Amnesty
Executive order 13166
Integration vs. Assimilation
Films
“American Feud”
“Obama’s Deal”