Review Guide: Bureaucracy, Judiciary and Individual Rights
Bureaucracy Unit
Terms:
List of agencies covered in class
Pendleton Act
Civil Service Reform
Hatch Act
Revolving door
Whistleblower Act
What is a bureaucracy?
Why do bureaucracies have such a bad reputation?
How is the federal bureaucracy organized?
How much control does the president have over the organization and operation of the federal bureaucracy?
What are the most important responsibilities of the federal bureaucracy?
How are positions in the federal bureaucracy filled?
What role do political leaders play in staffing the federal bureaucracy?
To whom is the federal bureaucracy accountable?
How do political pressures shape the organization, actions, and policies of the federal bureaucracy?
How do bureaucratic realities shape the policy choices of political leaders?
How have the responsibilities of the federal bureaucracy changed in recent years?
What constraints are there on the actions and policies of the federal bureaucracy?
What is an iron triangle? Be able to describe this relationship in a few different arenas, not just defense contracting.
Chapter 14, The Judiciary
Terms:
P. 435 terms: eliminate justiciable dispute, amicus curiae brief, writ of certiorari, docket
What role does the federal judicial system play in contemporary American government?
What is “judicial activism”?
How is the federal judicial system organized?
What limits are there on the interpretation of the law and the Constitution by federal judges?
What powers do judges have to ensure that their rulings are enforced?
Has the process of selecting federal judges become too “politicized”?
How are federal judges selected?
What role does the Supreme Court play in contemporary American government?
Chapters 16 & 17 Due Process and Civil Rights
Only terms and cases discussed in class, terms in Bill of Rights PPT (last two slides contain most of these)
Due process “revolution”
Warren Court
1964 Civil Rights Act
Free exercise clause
Establishment clause
First ten amendments
Original intent
14th Amendment: application of Bill of Rights to state governments, “incorporation” one right at a time
Political speech
Symbolic speech
Clear and present danger doctrine
Bad Tendency doctrine
Incitement standard
Obscenity 3 part test (SLAPS)
Exclusionary rule
Double jeopardy
Ex post facto
Federalism
(McCullough v. Maryland)
(Marbury v. Madison)
(Gibbon v. Ogden)
(Worcester v. Georgia)
Bush v. Gore
Baker v. Carr
US v. Nixon
Rights of Accused
Mapp v. Ohio
(Miranda v. Arizona) Due Process Revolution
Gideon v. Wainwright
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Civil Rights
Dred Scott
(Plessy v. Ferguson)
Heart of Atlanta- 1964 Civil Rights Act
Shaw v Reno
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Civil Liberties
Lemon v. Kurtzman
Tinker v Des Moines School Disrict
Texas v. Johnson
Roe v. Wade
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld