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AP Government Review SessionsSession 3: Sat. April 26 (1:30 PM- HHS Library)
Session 4: Sat. May 3 (9:30 AM- Freshman Center Lecture Hall
Follow @heymisterfitz for updates#FitzAPGov
www.misterfitz.net
If you miss a session, you can stream the audio at the above link as well as grab tons of review sources
What you are up against…
Some tips…
• Multiple Choice:
1. Read each question carefully. Don’t fall for the distractors
2. Bubble as you go!
• FRQS:
1. Define, Identify and Explain
2. Give examples even if not asked
3. No intro, thesis or conclusion
4. If it asks you to choose TWO of the following, choose ALL THREE for insurance
5. Demarcate your FRQs (A, B, C and so forth) this makes the reader happy
6. Answer the questions in the order you know them
ConstitutionCivil
Liberties and Civil Rights
Federalism
Public Opinion & Political
Participation
Political Parties
Campaigns and Elections
Media
Presidency
Judiciary
Congress
Interest Groups and
Policy-making
Bureaucracy
The “Big XII”
Question #1
Congress and the Bureaucracy
Question #2
Congress, Political Participation and
Civil Rights
Question #3
Judicial, legislative and executive branches
Question #4
Elections, media, interest groups
I. Constitution (5-15%)
• Locke and natural rights
• Shays
• “Miracle at Philadelphia”
• Factions and Federalist 10
• Madisonian Model
• Tyranny of the majority
• Great compromise
• Ratification debates
• Necessary and Proper clause (“elastic”)
• Commerce Clause
• 10th Amendment
• Theories of democratic gov’t:– Pluralism
– Hyper pluralism
– Elite theory
II. Federalism (5-15%)
• Dual federalism
• Fiscal federalism
• Supremacy clause
• Block grants
• Categorical grants
• Grants-in-aid
• Gibbons v. Ogden (1823)
• U.S. v. Lopez (1995)
• Mandates
• ADA (1990)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• Devolution (New federalism)
• Welfare Reform Act (1996)
• “Laboratories of Democracy”
• Inequality?
III. Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (5-15%)
• 14th Amendment
– Equal protection clause
– Due process clause
• Incorporation Doctrine (Selective)
• Free exercise vs. establishment clause
• Schenck v. U.S. (1919)
• Gitlow v. New York (1925)
• Near v. Minnesota (1935)
• Miller v. California (1973)
• Texas v. Johnson (1989)
• New York Times v. U.S. (1971)
• Engel v. Vitale (1962)
• Lemon v. Kurzman (1971)
• Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
• Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
• Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
• Roe v. Wade (1973)
MUST KNOW Civil Lib cases:
“2nd Tier Cases”
LESS likely to appear• Oregon v. Smith (1990)
• Reynolds v. U.S. (1878)
• Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
• Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
• New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
• Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
III. Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (5-15%)
14th Amendment
• Discrimination-– Strict scrutiny
– Intermediate scrutiny
– Rational basis
Key Civil Rights Cases• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)
• Brown v. Board (1954)
• Baker v. Carr (1963)
• Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)
• Craig v. Boren (1976)
• UC Davis v. Bakke (1979)
IV. Public Opinion & Political Participation5-15%
• Political socialization– Role of family
– Role of Education
• Political efficacy
• Equality of opportunity vs. results
• Mistrust of government
• Polls and Random Digit Dialing (RDD)
• Reapportionment
• Sunbelt
• Forms of political participation
• Unconventional forms of participation
• (think time energy and knowledge)
IV. Public Opinion & Political Participation(5-15%)
• Who votes and for whom?– Blacks? Hispanics? Jews? Catholics? Evangelicals
Progressives? Conservatives?
IV. Public Opinion & Political Participation(5-15%)