POS 2041 2024 Test 2 Study Guide PDF

This is a simple study guide, it is just a guide, students are responsible to understand the concepts from the chapters on the Test 2 Students should, answer and define or make notes on all terms and concepts, print this out before class and come with any questions from this guide. Chapter 3 Federa...

This is a simple study guide, it is just a guide, students are responsible to understand the concepts from the chapters on the Test 2 Students should, answer and define or make notes on all terms and concepts, print this out before class and come with any questions from this guide. Chapter 3 Federalism 1. What is Federalism? 2. What is the Supremacy Clause? 3. What did Chief Justice Marshall argue in Mc Culloch v. Maryland? 4. Where is power/authority concentrated in a Confederation? 5. What is a Unitary Government? 6. Powers of the state granted by the Constitution. 7. Give an example (drinking age) of how the influence of the national government can wield over state governments through withholding of federal funds. 8. Where do most policy the national government adopts, originate/ 9. What are Enumerated Powers 10. What are Implied Powers? 11. Which government has the power to : enter treaties; coin money; regulate commerce/ 12. What does the Supremacy Clause state? Chapter 4 Civil Liberties 1. Define Civil liberties. 2. What are the 5 protections stated in the 1^st^ Amendment (5 protections)? 3. Explain the Selective Incorporation Doctrine? 4. What was decided in the SCOTUS case of -Near v. Minnesota? 5. What was decided in the SCOTUS case of -New York Times v. Sullivan 6. What is Libel? 7. What is Slander? 8. What is the main concept of the 4^th^ Amendment? 9. What is the main concept of the 5^th^ Amendment? 10. What was significant about Miranda v. Arizona? 11. What did SCOTUS decide in -Boumediene v. Bush? 12. Who proposed the Bill of Rights? 13. What was decided in Schenck v. United? Chapter 5 Civil Rights 1. What is the rational basis test? 2. What does the 13^th^ Amendment state? 3. What was the 1964 Civil Rights Act? 4. 14^th^ Amendment 5. 15^th^ Amendment 6. Which Justice wrote the opinion in Brown v. Board of Education? 7. What is forbidden in the Title IX of the Education Act of 1972 8. What is required to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990? 9. What are the 3 Levels of Scrutiny according to the textbook? 10. What principle was decided in the SCOTUS case of -Plessy v. Ferguson? 11. Define Suffrage 12. What was a consequence of the Voting Rights Act of 1965? 1. What is Diplomacy? Is it the same as Foreign Policy? 2. Foreign Policy includes: military economic diplomacy? 3. Why was the United Nations created? 4. Which countries are included in the UN Security Council? 5. What is the balance of power? 6. The foremost diplomat after the president is the Secretary of State? 7. What is the EU? 8. Foreign aid and global environmental policy include? 9. International Organizations 10. Secretary of State vs. Secretary of Defense 11. Power to declare war. 12. Balance of trade 13. Paris Agreement 14. What is the War Powers Resolution?