AP United States Government and Politics Summer Reading Assignment Part 1 Read the book Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House about the Future of Faith in America by Michael Wear. Your task: After reading the book, address the following issues in short answer (510 sentences) form. Write a new separate paragraph for each issue: 1. The author claims that religious freedom is not under attack, but it is under pressure. Evaluate this statement with evidence from the text. 2. What are the challenge associated with the President regularly attending church services? 3. Describe the controversy surrounding the pastors chosen to pray at the 2008 and 2012 inaugurations. 4. Why was Jena Lee Nardella s prayer at the Democratic National Convention in 2012 used as a positive example by the author? 5. Describe the controversy surrounding either gay marriage, abortion, or contraception as discussed in the text. Use specific examples Finally, write a reaction paper (minimum 1 1/2 pages, doublespaced, times new roman) that examines the author s application of Jeremiah 29:7 as a call for civic engagement by Christians. Do you agree with this application? What, in your opinion, is the proper role of faith in politics? Support your thesis with examples from the text. Email your short answers and paper to me as a PDF and name the file: (LastName)APGovtSummer18. Part II Briefly explain the ruling and significance of each of the following Supreme Court Cases. There will be a quiz within the first week of school. Boumediene v. Bush Plessy v. Ferguson Griswold v. Connecticut Korematsu v. United States Scheneck v. United States Dred Scott v. Sandford Mapp v. Ohio Baker v. Carr Brown v. Board of Education Roe v. Wade McCulloch v. Maryland Obergefell v. Hodges Marbury v. Madison Citizens United v. FEC Lochner v. New York Gibbons v. Ogden
Part III Read The United States Constitution: A Graphic Novel by Jonathan Hennessey and Aaron McConnell and completed the attached outline. You are required to complete the outline by hand. It is due on the first day of school.
THE U.S. CONSTITUTION A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION By: Johnathan Hennessey and Aaron McConnell Define Preordained From on high Consolation Laws of Nature Name The novel begins with WE THE PEOPLE blending in to a specific time during the American Revolution the winter at VALLEY FORGE. 1. What was the pattern of rule for most of history before the colonies broke away from England? (page 8) 2. What ideas were not challenged or questioned? 3. What did philosophers, like John Locke, reject 4. Instead he argued what four points? 5. Why had the colonies practically governed themselves? (page 11)
6. What two other issues/events (need for money) led to Great Britain ending the practice of letting the colonies govern themselves? (page 11/12) 7. List the literal ways (written into the table) that colonists and Great Britain wrestled over before the Declaration of Independence. (page 13) Great Britain Colonies 8. Explain how Washington s forces were able to win without winning? (page 14) 9. What followed victory/independence? 10. Cite 6 events that happened AFTER the Declaration of Independence and before the Constitution was approved. (page 15) The Articles of Confederation drafted 11. Describe what America was like under the Articles of Confederation. (23 sentences) (page 16)
12. List four specific examples of how things fell apart fast (page 17) Graphic Novel part II questions, begin on page 18) In the summer of 1787, what did TWELVE states do? 13. Who volunteered to lead the meeting? 14. Their goal was to form a more? 15. Describe the BIG PROBLEM with power 16. How does the image help symbolize Separation of Powers? What does each symbol represent? 17. What does SEPARATION OF POWERS insure?
18. Word for word, copy down how the book describes CHECKS and BALANCES In other words 19. How does the graphic novel define FEDERALISM? 20. The founding fathers weren t sent to a meeting to do this, but what did they decide to do anyway? 21. What does the Constitution they created actually do?(page 22) 22. How was England s vague Constitution fragile, like a bubble that could be popped? 23. Why was writing the Constitution the balancing act of all time?
READ PAGES 2741 AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW 1. Besides legislating (writing laws) how does page 27 describe the duty of Congress? 2. What are some words NOT in the U.S. Constitution? 3. Specifically, what is the job of elected officials in a REPUBLIC, or a representative democracy? What is the people s duty? 4. Compare Wyoming s and California s population WY CA Population Representation in the Senate 5. On page 29 and 30, what compromise from the Constitution is described? 6. Who are constituents?
7.When the Constitution was first written, who or what controlled voting? What requirement to vote was often added to being a white male? 8. What was the last state to remove a property requirement to vote? When? 9. What is it about elections and terms of office (2 years for House, 6 years for Senators) makes the Senate more stable and less reactive than the House? 10. Thought question from last unit How was allowing people who DIDN T OWN PROPERTY the right to vote PROGRESSIVE? 11. Without Congressional districts, what could one party dominate within a state? (bottom of 33) 12. What does impeach mean? 13. Who can be?
14. For what charges? 15. What is the Senate s role in impeachment cases? A vote to? 16. What are some ways Congress can take action on elections, even though elections are controlled by states? 17. What is a lameduck politician? What amendment is referred to on page 36 in the upper right hand corner? 18. What is a quorum? 19. What is one for the House of Representatives the Senate 20. From page 3738, what are members of Congress shielded from? 21. What cases would that protection NOT count for? 22. Why does the Constitution outline a lengthy process for bills to become law? 23. Which ideology from the spectrum think this has already happened? 24. Before a bill can get to the President, what has to happen? (Summarize page 40) 25. What are the President s two basic choices? 26. What are the two things that can happen to a bill not signed or vetoed by the President?
27. What is it called when an unsigned bill doesn t pass? 28. What are Congress s two choices for any bill that doesn t pass after the President reacts to them? Graphic Novel Civil Liberties questions From page 88 in the graphic novel 1. What did the federal government voluntarily do in 1791? 2. Instead of the Bill of Rights granting rights to people, how does the book explain what the B of R actually does? 3. For what three reasons do people need to be free to pursue a wide spectrum of facts and opinion? 4. What types of opinions need special protection?
5. What did the Supreme Court allow a public school to do in 1940? 6. What quickly happened with that decision? 7. What two things were pointed out after the Minersville School District v. Gobitis decision? That the Supreme Court Second, that the freedom of speech 8. How is freedom of speech NOT absolute? 9. DEFINE Inflammatory speech Defamatory speech Hate speech True threats 10. What is critical to remember about freedom of speech and the press? 11. Explain HOW the Bill of Rights protections were limited until 1868
12. What did it take for the Bill of Rights protections to be INCORPORATED into state actions as well as federal actions? 13. What two STATE laws were put out of practice as violations of protected SYMBOLIC speech? 14. What is the most protected form of speech? 15. What does the ESTABLISHMENT clause of the 1 st amendment say there can never be? 16. What did it NOT do to STATES that already had official churches? 17. Even though states gave up their official churches before the 14 th amendment, what would the 14 th amendment do to a state that had an official church today? 18. Summarize each case outcome below Reynolds v. U.S. (1879) Welsh v. U.S. (1970) 19. Explain the meaning of freedom of ASSOCIATION (2 things the government may not do)
20. What are the two ideas of the 2 nd amendment? 21. How were MILITIAS better than MERCENARIES? 22. To the ANTI Federalists, what was the purpose of MILITIAS? 23. Cite a regulation to firearms use that has been around for a long time. 24. What could the founders have not imagined in terms of firearms? 25. In terms of the Constitution, what is the difference between PEOPLE PERSONS 26. Cite three things the Supreme Court Case District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) established/specified/let stand.