Calendar, Weeks of 3/13, 3/20 & 3/27

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

3/13 3/14 3/15 3/16 3/17
Freedom FRQ #13 Rights of the Right to Privacy Judicial
of Speech Accused Philosophy
Homework: Homework:
SSB, p. 135-140 Due: Peter Irons, from Due:
& Rights of the Search & Seizure Brennan vs. RoF Ticket
Accused; Scenarios Rehnquist
Search & Seizure RING
Scenarios Homework: OF
SSB, p. 130-135 FIRE

Homework:
Test on Judicial
Branch Monday

3/20 3/21 3/22 3/23 3/24

Judicial Branch Foreign and Environment Environment Vocab. Quiz #4
TEST Domestic Policy Policy Policy

Vocab Quiz #3

Homework:
Handout 1: SSB,
p. 543-546 & 558-
564; Handout 2:
SSB, p. 483-492

Span. FT 3/27 3/28 Europe 3/29 Europe 3/30 Europe 3/31

Film: Thirteen GVSU Trip Film: Thirteen Film: Thirteen Vocab. Quiz #1-4
Days Days Days
Day

NOTE: If school is cancelled for any reason, you still are responsible for keeping up with the
readings and assignments for that day. If Ms. Ward is unexpectedly absent, continue following your
calendar as is until she revises it for you.

Calendar, Weeks of 3/13, 3/20 & 3/27

As you complete the readings for each week, you should be taking thorough notes to help you
remember the material, sort out complex ideas, make connections to other class content and
keep track of any questions you may have.
Use the questions below as a GUIDE to help you complete your readings and notes these
questions are NOT all-inclusive! Use your own words!!! Use complete sentences where
appropriate!!! Its a good idea to LOOK UP terms/concepts/laws/cases/etc. that are referenced
in your readings that you are not familiar with!
Be prepared to take A QUIZ about any and ALL readings from SSB and elsewhere!!!

SSB, p. 135-140 (Tuesday, 3/14)

1. Which Supreme Court ruling recognized a constitutional right to privacy? Explain how
the Court interpreted the Constitution to guarantee this right.
2. Explain the Supreme Courts ruling in the Roe v. Wade case in your own words. Be
specific. Describe the two major subsequent Supreme Court rulings on the issue of
abortion.
3. Describe the Supreme Courts decision in the Cruzan case. Why has the right to die still
been controversial sometimes, even after this ruling?

SSB, p. 130-135 (Wednesday, 3/15)

1. Which Supreme Court ruling recognized a constitutional right to privacy? Explain how
the Court interpreted the Constitution to guarantee this right.
2. Explain the Supreme Courts ruling in the Roe v. Wade case in your own words. Be
specific. Describe the two major subsequent Supreme Court rulings on the issue of
abortion.
3. Describe the Supreme Courts decision in the Cruzan case. Why has the right to die still
been controversial sometimes, even after this ruling?
4. Why are the rights of criminal suspects protected in the Constitution?
5. What was the significance of the Miranda v. Arizona case?
6. Explain the exclusionary rule and the good faith exception to the rule in your own
words.
7. Explain the bifurcated procedure used by states and the federal government for capital
cases.
8. Besides decreased public support, what are two other reasons that the number of
executions may be in decline.
9. How were the civil liberties of Japanese Americans limited during World War II, and
why?

Handout: Peter Irons: Brennan vs. Rehnquist (Thursday, 3/16 Ring of

Fire)
*Please review the ideas of judicial activism and judicial restraint
1. Why did the author choose to contrast Justice Brennan and Chief Justice Rehnquist?
Which justice represents the philosophy of judicial restraint and which represents judicial
activism? Explain how you know.
2. How did Justice Brennan interpret the Due Process clauses of the 5th & 14th Amendments?
3. In your own words, describe how Justice Brennan viewed the relationship between the
judicial and legislative branches of government.
4. According to Justice Brennan, what role should public opinion (or the community) play in
judicial interpretation? Why did he think this was necessary?
5. In your own words, describe how Chief Justice Rehnquist viewed the relationship between
the judicial and legislative branches of government.
6. What did Chief Justice Rehnquist think about the idea of the Constitution as a living
document?
7. How did Chief Justice Rehnquist believe the morality/goodness of values is determined in a
democracy?
Handout, SSB, p. 483-492 (Monday, 3/20)
1. Define domestic policy in your own words.
2. Identify the five steps in the policymaking process. Describe what happens at each step.
3. Compare U.S. health care spending to the spending of other nations.
4. Why have health care costs been rising in the past 50 years?
5. What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?
6. Describe two problems with the current Medicare system.
7. Describe demographic groups (race, age, employment, etc.) who tend to all in the
uninsured category.
8. Describe national health insurance. Explain why it might national health insurance is
sometimes called a single-payer plan.
9. Which step of the policymaking process do you think President Clintons health care policy
reached? Explain.
10. What is one advantage of health savings accounts? What is one disadvantage?

Handout, SSB, p. 543 546 and 558 564 (Monday, 3/20)

1. What are the four broad types of U.S. foreign policy?
2. Who tends to set the agenda in the foreign policymaking process?
3. What is difference between national security policy and defense policy? Who are the
primary designers of these policies?
4. What is diplomacy? Identify an example of a presidents successful use of diplomacy from
American history.
5. Explain the difference between moral idealism and political realism in American foreign
policy. Which approach do you think is better? Explain!
6. List the formal and informal powers/techniques the president has in terms of foreign policy-
making.
7. What are the limits on the ability of the Secretary of State to direct foreign policy?
8. What is the role of the NSC?
9. Why do you think, based on the reading, the intelligence community is so difficult to
oversee?
10. Describe the purpose and size of the Department of Defense.
11. What is the difference between mass and elite public opinion?
12. What is the military-industrial complex?

Environmental Policy Articles (Wednesday, 3/22)

Blue Sky Thinking
1. Describe what happened at each of the steps in the policy-making process during the
development of the cap-and-trade policy.
2. List as many people/groups that were involved in the development of the cap-and-trade
policy as you can find in the article.

Senators propose abandoning cap-and-trade

1. Describe the status of cap-and-trade legislation in February 2010 in Congress. What
caused that status.
2. List as many of the key players in the debate in 2010 that you can.

Pressure Limits Efforts to Police Drilling for Gas

1. List as many people/groups that have been involved in the development of the natural gas
drilling policy as you can find in the article.
2. Explain how this article shows examples of several concepts from the SSB reading and the
lecture notes on Policy-making in the Bureaucracy.
3. What phase of the policy-making process would you say we are in for policies on natural
gas drilling? Explain.