POLS 2311 EXAM 4

Unit Four Study Guide
Chapter 4
1. What is the Bill of Rights
2. What is the exclusionary rule?
3. What is the no establishment clause?
4. What is Roe v Wade?
5. What is ex post facto?
6. What is libel? What is slander?
7. What is the Fourth Amendment?
8. What is the Sixth Amendment?
9. Abington School District v. Schempp
10. What are fighting words?
11. What is the Lemon Test?
12. Miranda v Arizona
13. Mapp v. Ohio
14. What is substantive due process?
15. What is procedural due process?
16. Weeks v US
17. New York Times v Sullivan
18. Barron v Baltimore
19. Gitlow v New York
20. Miller v California
Chapter 5
21. The 13th Amendment
22. The 14th Amendment
23. The 15th Amendment
24. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
25. The Seneca Falls Conference
26. What were Jim Crow laws?
27. What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
28. What were the Black Codes?
29. What was the Bakke Case?
30. The 19th Amendment
31. Brown v Board of Education
32. Plessy v Ferguson
33. Lawrence v Texas
34. What is defacto segregation? Dejure?
35. Dred Scott v Sanford
36. What is affirmative action?
Chapter 14
37. How are federal judges appointed?
38. Marbury v Madison
39. How many justices sit on the Supreme Court?
40. What is the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court?
41. What is the jurisdiction of the U.S. Court of Appeals?

42. What is the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court?
43. What is the rule of four?
44. What is a writ of certiorari?
45. What is meant by stare decisis?
46. What is a writ of mandamus?
47. What are the different types of law?
48. What are the different types of jurisdiction?
49. What is a majority opinion?
50. What is a concurring opinion?
51. What is a dissenting opinion?
52. What is judicial activism?
53. What is judicial restraint?
54. Who was Robert Bork?
55. What is a plea bargain?
56. What is a felony?
57. What is a misdemeanor?
58. What is Senatorial Courtesy?
59. What is a plaintiff?
60. What is a defendant?

Essay

1. Discuss the structure and organization of the Federal Court system? How are judges selected? What is the jurisdiction of each court? What are the different types of law the federal courts apply?

2. Discuss the selective incorporation of the Bill of Rights in regards to the rights of the accused? What are the key amendments and court cases defining the rights of the accused?

3. Discuss the Freedom of Expression. What are the key Supreme Court rulings on the freedoms of speech, religion, and the press? What are the limitation of each?  Note any relevant court cases.

4. Discuss the history and progression of civil rights in the United States. What have been the major court cases and legislation that have advanced the cause of civil rights?