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Assignment 3. Read chapters 16 ,5, and 6, in the Wilson text.
Below is a list of items to be familiar with in preparation for Exam III:
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Judicial review
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Marbury v. Madison
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John Marshall
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Judicial restraint
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Judicial activism
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The Court and economic regulation
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The Court and slavery (Dred Scott)
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The Court and the New Deal
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Roosevelt’s court-packing plan
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The Brandies brief
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Disctrict courts
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Courts of appeal
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Appointment to the national court(s)
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A political litmus test
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A writ of certiorari
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Earl Gideon
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Legal standing
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Class action suits
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Opinion of the Court
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Dissenting opinion
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Stare decisis (precedent)
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Checks on judicial power
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Diversity among Justices
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Chapter 5
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Competing rights
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The Sedition Acts of 1798 and 1918
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The Smith Act (1940)
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Due process
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Equal protection
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Selective incorporation
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Gitlow v New York
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Application of free speech
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Symbolic speech
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Religion—free exercise and establishment clause
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Schenck v. U.S.
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Reno v. ACLU
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Texas v. Johnson
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Wall-of-separation principle
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Engel v. Vitale and Lee v Weisman
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Probable cause
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The Miranda rule
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Good faith exception to Miranda
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Inevitable discovery
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Mapp v Ohio
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Rasul v Bush and Hamdi
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Chapter 6
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Separate-but-equal doctrine
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Brown v Board
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W.E.B. DuBois
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De jure segregation
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De facto segregation
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Civil disobedience
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The 19th Amendment
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Betty Friedan
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Reed v. Reed
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Rostker v. Goldberg
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U.S. vs. Virginia
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Right to privacy, Griswold v. Connecticut
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Rose v. Wade
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Affirmative action
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Reverse discrimination
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Bakke case
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Lawrence v. Texas
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Gay rights
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Rights of aliens
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