Government EOCA Review

The Government EoCA will consist of 50 Multiple Choice and 4 Options to choose 1 Essay.

Key Concepts:

• Political Spectrum & Ideologies [i.e.: Liberal, Conservative, Moderate]
• Article II of the Constitution
• Checks & Balances
• The 3 Branches of Government and their powers
• Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
• The Foundations of the Constitution
• The Constitution clauses
• Elastic Clause
• Necessary & Proper Clause
• Declaration of Independence
• The Amendments [all of them]
• Judicial Review
• Supreme Court
• How a Supreme Court chooses to hear a case
• Writ of Certiorari
• Landmark Supreme Court cases
• Judicial Philosophy [and the application to certain Court cases]
• Federalism
• Polling
• Random Sampling
• eminent domain
• exclusionary rule
• Voting Rights
• Expansion of suffrage
• Voter qualifications [from the beginning of the government and through history: i.e.:
• Pre-Revolution through Constitutional Convention: State Mandates
• Post-Revolution: White male-land owners
• Post 19th Amendment: all genders [etc.]
• Constitutional Conventions
• House of Representatives and the Constitution
• Immigration Laws
• Thomas Paine's Common Sense
• Requirements for naturalization, citizenship
• Court jurisdiction
• John Marshall
• Vice-President's powers under the Constitution
• Veto, Pocket-Veto, Signature of laws
• Congressional Override
• Rules Committee, Sub-Committee, Appropriations Committee
• Media Agendas in the Press
• Amicus Curiae
• Lobbyists
• Political Campaigning
• McCulloch v. Maryland
• Marbury v. Madison
• Brown v. Board of Ed.
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Gibbons v. Ogden
• Enlightenment
• Social Contract Theory
• Separation of Powers
• Popular Sovereignty
• Federalist Papers
• States' Powers
• Primaries
• Caucuses
• 2-Party Systems
• Different types of Government: [i.e.- Authoritarian etc.]
• Responsibilities of American Citizenship [i.e.: voting, serving as a juror]
• Federal, State, Concurrent Laws
• Economic stimulus initiatives
• Health Care Reform Initiative
• Tax Cuts to the Wealthy
• TARP
• Creation of Laws process
• Media influence on Presidencies
• Tax Cuts/Reform
• Affordable Care Act
• War Powers