Politics and Government Final - Friday, June 6 - Review Sheet

Exam will be multiple choice, fill in the blank, and short answer.

Reagan: Foreign policy of, and military spending, Reaganomics, children of, as actor, as corporate spokesman, as governor of California, relationship w/Religious Right, legacy of     

George Wallace

Newt Gingrich

Jimmy Carter

Mikhail Gorbachev

Sandra Day O’Connor

William F. Buckley

Lyndon Johnson

Russel Kirk

Franklin Roosevelt

Clarence Darrow

William Jennings Bryan

Thomas Jefferson

DC v Heller

McDonald v Chicago

Scottsboro Cases

Lawrence v Texas

Bowers v Harwick

Kelo v New London

Romer v Evans

Atkins v Va

Penry v Lynaugh

Heart of Atlanta v U.S.

Kelo v. New London

Gitlow v. New York

Marbury v. Madison

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Schenk v. United States

Brandenberg v Ohio

Zorach v Clauson

Slaughterhouse Cases

Acton v Veronia School District 

Earls v. Bd of Ed

Barron v. Mayor of Baltimore

Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

Walz v. NYC Tax Commission      

Lemon v. Kurtzman

McCollum v. Board of Education

Pierce v. Society of Sisters

Everson v. Board of Education

Sherbert v Verner

Engle v. Vitale

Epperson v. Arkansas

WVA Board of Education v. Barnette

Minersville v. Gobitis

Schenk v U. S.

Marbury v Madison

Furman v Georgia

Gregg v Georgia

Gitlow v. New York

Edwards v Aguillard

Zelman v Simmons-Harris

Minersville v. Gobitis

Sherbert v Verner

Weeks v United States

United States v Santana

Boy Scouts of America v Dale

Miranda v. Arizona

Plessy v Ferguson

Brown v Board of Education

Bowers v Hardwick

Heart of Atlanta v US

Commerce Clause

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Butler Act

Missouri Compromise

Reconstruction Amendments

Voting Rights Act of 1965

1981 Economic Recovery Tax Act

14th amendment

Bill of Rights

Establishment Clause

Free Exercise Clause

Establishment / Free Exercise

Judicial Review, Types of

ACLU

voter identification

racial makeup of southern electorate

Great White Switch

Republican Revolution 1994

SALT, SALT II

Freeze Movement

Reykjavik Summit

Geneva Summit

Nicaragua

Beiruit

Iran-Contra Affair

Afghanistan

New Christian Right

Berlin Wall

Popularizer

Military industrial complex

Containment

philosophers, popularizers, philanthropists, and politicians

detente

Keynesnian Economics
Milton Friedman 

Strategic Defense Initiative

Daisy Add

“A Time for Choosing”

Vietnam War

Watergate Scandal

Iranian hostage crisis
Boland Amendment 

6 Conservative principles

ICBMs

Executive, legislative, judicial branches (major powers of each)

Framers of the Constitution

States rights/state sovereignty

Earl Warren/Major Justices

Reykjavik Summit

Geneva Summit 

due process

equal protection

civil liberties

judicial review

Dangerous Tendencies Test/Clear and Present Danger

Imminent Lawless Action 

Writ of certiorari

“benevolent neutrality”

“child benefit theory”

Excessive Entanglement Standard

Compelling interest rule

Generally applicable law rule

balanced time

Compelling interest

Generally applicable

Exclusionary rule

Writ of certiorari

Released Time

overlapping jurisdiction

double jeopardy

change of venue
Present Supreme Court, chief justice