A.P. US Government & Politics Summer Assignment THIS IS A TWO PART ASSIGNMENT! BE SURE TO READ THROUGH THIS ENTIRE DOCUMENT!!! PART ONE: SUPREME COURT CASE CHART Instructions: Look up each court case. (A good place to start that I recommend is oyez.org). Create a google doc and share it with me when you are done. You may create a chart (but do not use a spreadsheet). This will help you during the course and to study for the AP Exam so create something in a format that will be useful to you. For each case, you need to tell me: 1. Plantiffs and Defendants 2. Brief facts about the case (who is suing who and why? sum it up in a sentence or two!) 3. Court s Decision/Rule of Law (just a sentence or two!) 4. Impact on government policy (just a sentence or two!) 5. Citation (where did you get your information? You may cite to the webpage and insert a link; MLA is not required). Quality is not quantity!! Practice getting to the point quickly. CITE your sources! Assignments will not be accepted without proper citations. DO NOT PLAGIARIZE/CUT AND PASTE! You must write this in your own words. You MAY NOT share your findings or divide up the work amongst several people. Failure to follow instructions will result in an automatic zero and disciplinary offense. By putting the time in to do this now, you will save the time later when you don t have it!! DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE!! 1
PART TWO: CURRENT EVENT LOG You are to choose ONE current event topic dealing with US Government and/or Politics before leaving school and email me your topic. (For example: presidential/political campaign, foreign policy, upcoming Supreme Court decision, etc.) You are to keep a bi-weekly log of news pertaining to your topic (so you should have no less than SIX entries in your log and not all from the same week!!). This is supposed to be a topic you follow for several months so unless something major happens, I should be seeing articles from over the course of the summer so DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE!!! Your log should be done on google docs and shared with me by the first day of school. 1) You must locate a current news story from a legitimate news source that pertains to your chosen topic (sorry but the Daily Show, Colbert Report, Oprah, and the Huffington Post do NOT count! Try to avoid editorials, blogs, weather section, or sports pages/magazines!) You should use at least 3 different sources for your news reports (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc.) and they can be international (BCC, Al Jazeera, etc.) 2) Complete a short write-up of the article. EACH entry should include a. Title, Date, and Publisher of the article, b. 1 paragraph summary, and c. 1 paragraph explaining how it relates to your chosen topic and/or its impact on US Government and Politics. d. Link to the article. 2
Court Cases 1. McCulloch v Maryland 1819 2. Gibbons v Ogden 1824 3. Clinton v City of New York 1998 4. Marbury v Madison 1803 5. Barron v Baltimore 1833 6. Palko v CT 1937 7. Mapp v Ohio 1961 8. Griswold v CT 1965 9. Roe v Wade 1972 10. New Jersey v TLO 1985 11. Escobedo v Illinois 1964 12. Gideon v Wainright 1964 13. Miranda v Arizona 1966 14. Powell v Alabama 1932 15. Betts v Brady 1942 16. Gregg v Georgia 1976 17. Furman v Georgia 1972 18. U.S. v Lopez 1995 19. Plessy v Ferguson 1898 20./21. Brown v Board of Education I and II 22. Gitlow v New York 1925 23. California Board of Regents v Bakke 1978 3
24. Romer v Evans 1996 25. Reed v Reed 1971 26.Craig v Boren 1976 27. Lawrence v Texas 2003 28. Engel v Vitale 1962 29. Lemon v Kurtzman 1971 30. Lee v Weisman 1992 31. Sante Fe Independent School District v Doe 2002 32. Buckley v Valeo 1976 33. Reno v ACLU 1997 34. Tinker v DesMoines School District 1969 35. New York Times v Sullivan 1964 36. New York Times v U.S. 1971 37. Dred Scott v Sanford 1857 38. Employment Division of Oregon v Smith 1991 39. Reynolds v United States 1879 40. Church of Lukumi Babalu v City of Hialeah 1993 41. Democratic Party of Ca. v Jones 2000 42. Minor v Happersett 1875 43. United States v Nixon 1974 44. Schenck v US 1919 44. Schechter Poultry v US 1935 45. Korematsu v US 1944 46. Youngstown Sheet & Tube v Sawyer 1952 4
47. Reynolds v Sims 1964 48. Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenberg 1971 49. Edwards v Aguillard 1987 50. Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1989 51. Employment Division (Oregon) v Smith 1990 52. Shaw v Reno 1993 53. Kelo v City of New London 2005 54. Stenberg v Carhart 2000 55. Gonzales v Carhart-Conzales v. Planned Parenthood 2007 56. United States v Virginia Military Institute 1996 57. Boy Scouts v Dale 2000 58. Bush v Gore 2001 59./60. Grutter v Bollinger 2003 Gratz v Bollinger 2003 61. Lawrence and Garner v Texas 2003 62. Hamdi v Rumsfeld 2004 63. Citizens United v Federal Election Commission 2010 64. U.S. v Windsor 2013 65. Hollingsworth v Perry 2013 5