PS1 Final Exam Review Sheet

Be able to define the following terms

“Establishment Clause”

“Free-Exercise Clause”

“With all deliberate speed”

Affirmative action

Bill of Rights (Be able to summarize all the [first 10] amendments)

Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954)

Checks and Balances

Congress

Conservative

more relaxed on economic issues but seeks protection of traditional views and lifestyles

De facto discrimination

Discrimination that occurs as a fact rather than legally

Declaration of Independence

Federalism

Federalist Paper No.10

Filibuster

The Great Compromise

Imminent lawless action

Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Judicial Review

Liberal

Libertarian

Locke

John Locke, English philosopher…. Life, liberty, and property

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Montesquieu

The New Jersey Plan

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• Homer Plessy, black man boards a train and is told to leave and go to a nonwhite train. He takes this to court citing violation of 14th amendment

• He loses his case and results in separate-but-equal doctrine

Political socialization

Populist

Presidency

Presidential vetoes

Prior restraint

Racial profiling

Roe v. Wade (1973)

abortion rights from woman in Texas

Selective incorporation

Separate-but-equal

a doctrine of racial segregation that makes different items or places based on skin color

Separation of powers

Shay’s Rebellion

Supremacy Clause

Supreme Court

The Civil Rights Acts

The New Jersey (small-state) Plan

The Virginia Plan

Three-fifths compromise

counted only 3/5 of a slave population toward representation for voting purposes

US Federal System Diagram