EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT

Hello Class,ou

I don't know if I mentioned this for all my classes. I have a modest proposal for you all. If you are interested in raising your score by one grade level at the end of the second semster (A to A+, B to A, C to B, you get the idea...) complete the following task: Copy the "model student response" to every FRQ from 1999 to 2010. That is 44 FRQ's in total. You will need to assemble a packet of completed FRQ's for me in a three ringed binder--I can provide you with a free one if you are interested. You will turn this binder into me the day after you take your exam in May. You must also agree to use the assembled FRQ binder for review prior to the exam. The packet will be due after the Spring Break. So, you have two vacation breaks to complete this task (22 FRQ's per break?).

Here is the link to the website where the FRQ's are to be found: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_questions/2086.html
Then find the student responses under the "Samples and Commentary" column. Click on each year.

Make sure you copy the FRQ that received the top points. It's usually the first one demonsrated at the site. The site also provides FRQ's that earned fewer points, usually under the top scoring FRQ: DON'T COPY THOSE.

Let me know if you have any questions on this extra credit opportunity....

Sabato Quiz #4

Sabato Quiz #4

1) What position did Tony Snow have before becoming George W. Bushʹs press secretary?
A) He was the chair of George W. Bushʹs 2006 reelection committee.
B) He was the White House chief of staff.
C) He was a member of the House of Representatives from Virginia.
D) He was a Fox News commentator.
E) He was a Texas oil tycoon and a major contributor to George W. Bushʹs 2006 reelection.

2) Which of the following best describes George W. Bushʹs relationship with the press?
A) He is exceedingly accessible to the press.
B) He is frequently available to answer journalistsʹ questions in both formal and informal
settings.
C) He is very tight-lipped.
D) He has a jovial relationship with the press.
E) He has an open-door policy for journalists.

3) Which of the following best describes media coverage of the George W. Bush presidency?
A) Journalists frequently praise George W. Bushʹs leadership.
B) Journalists frequently praise George W. Bushʹs prowess for public policies.
C) Journalists cover the Bush presidency in an overwhelmingly negative light.
D) Journalists cover the Bush presidency as exceedingly honest and forthright.
E) Journalists cover the Bush presidency with awe and admiration for the presidentʹs
successes.

4) Media coverage of Congress by network affiliates tends to concentrates on
A) Newt Gingrich and Strom Thurmond.
B) local members of Congress.
C) foreign policy.
D) freshmen representatives.
E) economic issues.

5) Why did the ʺmission accomplishedʺ banner backfire on George W. Bush?
A) because ordinary voters did not understand the banner
B) because the banner seemed to contradict what he said in his speech
C) because the banner cost over $100,000
D) because it fell down while he was giving his speech, making the military look inept
E) because it later underscored Bushʹs unrealistic expectations for the war in Iraq

6) Which political institution receives the least media coverage?
A) the House of Representatives
B) the Senate
C) the president
D) Congress
E) the Supreme Court

7) The media have the greatest influence on
A) hardcore liberals.
B) hardcore conservatives.
C) strong Democrats.
D) strong Republicans.
E) independents.

8) The media have the greatest influence on public opinion about
A) neighborhood crime.
B) childrearing.
C) inflation.
D) domestic policies.
E) events in foreign countries.

9) What is agenda setting?
A) the ability of the media to tell the public what issues the public should be thinking about
B) the tendency to remember only those news stories that are consistent with oneʹs
predispositions
C) the ability of the media to influence the publicʹs opinions on issues
D) the mediaʹs focus on scandal and corruption
E) the publicʹs ability to determine what issues the media covers.

10) Which of the following accurately describes American journalists?
A) They tend to be libertarian.
B) They tend to be socially conservative.
C) They tend to be anti-establishment.
D) They tend to be economically conservative.
E) They are just as likely to be registered Democrats as registered Republicans.

11) The mediaʹs coverage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 suggests that the media may
have a
A) liberal bias.
B) anti-incumbent bias.
C) corporate bias.
D) Democratic bias.
E) status quo bias.

12) Those who claim that the media has a conservative bias point to
A) FOX News.
B) a corporate mentality that is hesitant to criticize possible sponsors.
C) fiscally conservative corporate interests of companies that own the media.
D) the lack of media skepticism given to the Bush administrationʹs arguments for waging
war in Iraq.
E) All of the above.

13) Which of the following best summarizes ideological bias in the media?
A) The media have a strong liberal bias.
B) The media have a strong conservative bias.
C) The media have a liberal bias on social issues and a conservative bias on economic issues.
D) The media have a conservative bias on social issues and a liberal bias on economic issues.
E) Liberals think the media has a conservative bias and conservatives think the media has a
liberal bias.

Sabato Media Quiz #3

Class: This quiz corresponds to the reading pages: 564-68.

Sabato: The Media #3

1) What did the Supreme Court decide in New York Times Co. v. U. S.?
A) Journalists can be prosecuted for divulging classified information.
B) The government can not censor the press.
C) The New York Times could not publish the Pentagon Papers because they were classified.
D) The New York Times could not publish the Pentagon Papers because they were stolen.
E) The president has ʺinherent powerʺ to halt the publication of news that may harm the
morale of American soldiers.

2) What innovation did the George W. Bush administration establish regarding media coverage
of the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
A) The media could only report on the military action using pre-stationed remote field
cameras.
B) All media coverage of Iraq would need to be delayed for one week to allow the military
to notify the next of kin.
C) Journalists were permitted to embed themselves with various parts of the military.
D) The Bush administration limited news coverage by requiring reporters to conduct
interviews in Arabic.
E) The Bush administration limited news coverage by refusing to transport journalists into
combat areas.

3) Which of the following is most likely to be delivered in person by an officeholder?
A) a press release
B) a press briefing
C) a press conference
D) talking points
E) bad news

4) Information that is provided to a reporter on deep background
A) can only appear in the second half of a story.
B) can only appear in the part of the article that is continued on a later page.
C) can not be released to the public unless the reporter learns the same information from
another source.
D) can not be released to the public under any circumstances.
E) can be used but can not be attributed to the source in any way.

5) Why was New York Times reporter Judith Miller jailed for eighty-five days?
A) She divulged off the record information.
B) She divulged the source of information she had obtained on background.
C) She refused to reveal her source during the investigation into a leak that exposed a CIA
agent.
D) She leaked secret government information.
E) She embarrassed the White House by uncovering pictures of prisoner abuse at Abu
Ghraib.

6) A 2004 60 Minutes story claimed to provide evidence that George W. Bush had received
preferential treatment in the National Guard. What happened after this story ran?
A) Dan Rather received a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism.
B) George W. Bush apologized for ʺbeing derelict in my duties to my country.ʺ
C) Conservative bloggers uncovered problems with story and the producer was fired.
D) The producer of the story was attacked by an overzealous Bush supporter.
E) George W. Bush was dishonorably discharged from the military and required to repay
thousands of dollars in salary that he had collected under false pretenses.

7) Why was Lewis ʺScooterʺ Libby indicted in 2005?
A) for leaking classified information to the press
B) for misleading investigators searching for the source of a leak revealing the identity of a
CIA agent
C) for misleading Congress about stockpiles of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
D) for hindering prosecution of enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
E) for falsely implying that confidential information had been stolen from his office


8) In New York Times v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court
A) made it easier to prove libel.
B) prohibited prior restraint of the press.
C) required public officials to prove actual malice to win a libel suit.
D) determined that the New York Times had printed libelous falsehoods against Lyndon
Johnson.
E) declared that a sitting president can not be sued until after his tenure in office is finished.

9) Which president held the fewest press conferences?
A) Franklin Roosevelt
B) Harry Truman
C) John F Kennedy
D) Ronald Reagan
E) George W. Bush

10) The bulk of the media coverage focuses on
A) the president
B) the speaker of the House
C) the Senate majority leader
D) the Chief Justice of the United States
E) the bureaucracy

Sabato Quiz #2 on Media

Hello Class,

This quiz corresponds to reading pages: 553-563:

Sabato Media Quiz #2

1) People who use the Internet for news tend
A) not to subscribe to newspapers.
B) to disregard traditional media sources.
C) to be highly informed voters who use the Web to update their information.
D) to have blue collar jobs.
E) to be Republicans.

2) Which of the following accurately describes al-Jazeera?
A) It is modeled after CNN.
B) It is uniformly praised throughout the Middle East.
C) It mainly provides entertainment programs.
D) Most of its news is simply government propaganda.
E) All of the above.

3) Which of the following newspapers has the least influence over what stories are covered by
the television news media?
A) the Wall Street Journal
B) USA Today
C) Washington Post
D) New York Times
E) Houston Chronicle

4) Which of the following is a wire service that distributes stories to newspapers around the
world?
A) the New York Times
B) the Christian Science Monitor
C) al-Jazeera
D) the Associated Press
E) the BBC

5) Which of the following trends accurately describes the media in the United States?
A) The number of towns with competing local newspapers has increased.
B) Television networks are increasingly breaking with their parent companies to become
independent.
C) Newspapers are being bought by local governments to ensure that news coverage is
driven by journalist standards instead of corporate profits.
D) Media consolidation has increased in recent years.
E) Americans are consuming more political news than ever before.

6) What is narrowcasting?
A) the tendency of the media to frame political events using well-established stereotypes
B) the tendency for the media to focus on domestic events rather than international events
C) the increasing reliance of the media on political pundits
D) the targeting of media programs at specific segments of the population
E) political coverage that is superficial
Answer: D7) Republican viewersʹ main source of campaign news is
A) Fox News
B) CNN
C) MSNBC
D) the Daily Show
E) NPR


8) How does narrowcasting further polarize public opinion?
A) Viewers tend to watch news that reinforces their preexisting views.
B) Narrowcasting focuses on government corruption and political misdeeds.
C) Viewers are exposed to a range of information covering divergent views.
D) Narrowcasting encourages voters to reject the status quo and to support change.
E) Narrowcasting has resulted in fewer news outlets and, therefore, less diverse political
coverage.

9) Why are the broadcast media more strictly regulated than the print media?
A) The broadcast media has a long history of political malfeasance.
B) The broadcast media leases public airwaves.
C) The airwaves are an unlimited resource, but there can only be one newspaper in a city.
D) Children are exposed to television but donʹt have access to newspapers.
E) The broadcast media is more dangerous because pictures are more powerful than words.

10) The equal time rule requires that the electronic media
A) cover both liberal and conservative positions on a given issue.
B) cover both Democratic and Republican positions on a given issue.
C) sell advertising time to all candidates if they sell it to any candidate.
D) include all presidential candidates in any political debates they host.
E) devote the same coverage to domestic and to international events.

Sabato and More

For tomorrow's Class:

Chapter 15: The News Media

1) Which of the following events did NOT cause a public relations problem for the George W.
Bush administration?
A) Bush landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln under a ʺMission Accomplishedʺ banner
B) images of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib
C) pictures from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
D) payments to Iraqi reporters to write pro-U.S. stories
E) the pardon of Marc Rich for campaign finance violations

2) Which of the following was true regarding the penny press?
A) Newspapers typically cost about 10 cents.
B) They attempted to attract more readers by being nonpartisan.
C) They focused on serious news and avoided publishing political scandals.
D) They were owned and operated by political parties.
E) They were tools used by political machines to reward their supporters and punish their
detractors.

3) Which of the following was a hallmark of yellow journalism?
A) sensationalized reporting
B) high journalistic standards
C) anti-immigrant editorials
D) long and complex feature stories
E) the partisan press

4) Which of the following places the various journalistic periods in the correct chronological
order?
A) muckraking, yellow journalism, the penny press, the partisan press
B) the partisan press, yellow journalism, the penny press, muckraking
C) yellow journalism, the penny press, muckraking, the partisan press
D) the penny press, muckraking, the partisan press, yellow journalism
E) the partisan press, the penny press, yellow journalism, muckraking

5) A form of newspaper publishing during the early twentieth century concerned with reforming
government and business conduct is called
A) the penny press.
B) yellow journalism.
C) muckraking.
D) partisan journalism.
E) pack journalism.

6) Among the publishers who promoted yellow journalism was
A) William Randolph Hearst.
B) James G. Blaine.
C) Upton Sinclair.
D) William Roper.
E) David Sanger.

7) Which president most effectively used the radio to promote his public policies?
A) Calvin Coolidge
B) Franklin Roosevelt
C) Dwight Eisenhower
D) Lyndon Johnson
E) Richard Nixon

8) Which of the following accurately describes AM talk radio?
A) It is popular among liberals.
B) It is popular among minorities.
C) It has a strong conservative bent.
D) It has become more popular than television for getting political news.
E) It presents in-depth news coverage in a nonideological format.

9) Americans are most likely to get their news from
A) newspapers.
B) television.
C) radio.
D) news magazines.
E) the Internet.

10) When compared to older Americans, young Americans are more likely to get their campaign
news from
A) talk radio and C-SPAN.
B) NPR and MSNBC.
C) the Internet and comedy television.
D) newspapers and newsmagazines.
E) Nightline and 60 Minutes.

2004 FRQ on Third Parties: “Model Student Response”
Third parties have had over the course of time an influence over politics. They show an alternative to the common majority powers that have always dominated our country. However, they have also served as a “road block” or stumbling point for election years.

The Green Party candidate Ralph Nader ran in the 2000 election and was able to gather some of the percentage of voters. In the cartoon, Ralph states “End…throwaway mentality” but essentially everyone who voted for him threw away their votes. Essentially, Ralph Nader took votes away from both of the majority candidates running to win the election as he is planning to do for the 2004 election in which he has no possibility of winning.

The Electoral College is a series of winner-take-all elections. No partial election votes are won based on proportion. If a candidate wins the state majority vote, the candidate gets all of the electoral votes. Also, bigger states carry larger electorates to win. Unless a candidate has substantial financial backing, minor political parties cannot run campaigns in larger states as well as the Democratic or Republican parties can.

Third parties offer alternative choices to individuals with different ideological beliefs. Also, third parties offer different public policy ideas that are not offered by the mainstream Democratic or Republican parties. The Green Party has offered many policy positions such as on global warming and other areas of environmental concern. Their presence in a presidential race ensures that these issues are offered up for debate when they might otherwise be swept under the table by the mainstream candidates.

The role of minority groups has an important influence on campaigns and domestic policy. Although the mainstream party majority may control the playing field, issues that fit the concerns of the many Americans are expressed and this lends a voice to persons who otherwise might not be heard during election time. Although a minor party may never win an election when it comes to the presidency, third party views, opinions and issues will be brought up for the country to hear.

Monday's Sabato Quiz

12.2 True/False Questions

1) The 2004 Democratic and Republican Party platforms were nearly identical.

2) George Washington was the founder of the American political party system.

3) The American two-party system was established by the Constitution.

4) The Era of Good Feelings occurred during James Monroeʹs presidency.

5) By the 1820s, most states used popular elections to select their members of the Electoral
College.

6) Political machines were Republican Party organizations that organized rural voters by offering
many intangible incentives to be loyal to the party.

7) Political machines contributed to high voter turnout.

8) The Progressive movement weakened political parties and ushered in candidate-centered
politics.

9) A secular realignment occurred in the South in the 1990s, with traditionally Republican
Southerners gradually aligning with the Democratic Party.

10) The Republican Party has been very successful in its get-out-the-vote efforts.

11) Europeans are much more likely than Americans to believe that government should help in
providing children with food, clothes, and housing.

12) Party affiliation provides a useful cue for voters when evaluating political events and issues.

13) Very few of the items in the winning partyʹs platform are ever implemented.

14) Winner-take-all systems make it difficult for third parties to win legislative seats.

15) A third party candidate has never been elected to the U.S. Congress.

16) Third parties that are built around a single issue or a charismatic candidate are unlikely to
attain long-term viability.

17) Party chairpersons do a substantial amount of the planning for presidential nominating
conventions.

18) Contemporary national nominating conventions are choreographed to project the best image
to the American people.

19) Think tanks are comprised of intellectuals who study public policies from an academic
perspective and have no interest in influencing political debates or outcomes.

20) Republicans have dominated the world of think tanks.

21) Soft money played a crucial role in the 2006 midterm elections, helping Democrats regain
control of both chambers of Congress for the first time since 1994.

22) Republicans have consistently raised more hard money than Democrats.


23) Democrats trail behind Republicans in most measures of party activity.

24) The Democratic National Committee is chaired by Howard Dean, who has emphasized
grassroots organization and fund-raising.

25) In Congress, party-based voting has increased considerably in recent years.

26) In Congress, both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have become increasingly
ideologically homogeneous.

27) George W. Bush has dedicated considerable energy to building the Republican Party in the
electorate and in the government.

28) Most federal judicial appointees come from the presidentʹs party.

29) During Bill Clintonʹs presidency, congressional Republicans blocked Clintonʹs judicial
appointees. During George W. Bushʹs presidency, congressional Democrats blocked Bushʹs
judicial appointees.

30) Following the 2006 elections, Republicans held a majority of state legislatures.

31) Restrictive ballot laws, campaign finance rules, and the inertia of a two-party system have
made it difficult for third parties to become viable.

32) Most Americans perceive the middle class to be fairly narrow and restrictive.

33) One reason for the gender gap is the lack of support for the Democratic Party among men.

34) Americans with advanced degrees are more likely to be Democrats than Republicans.

35) Although Hispanics have traditionally supported the Democratic Party, they began voting en
masse for the Republican Party starting with the 2000 presidential election.

36) One reason older voters tend to support the Democratic Party is its traditional support for
Social Security and Medicare.

37) While the party in the electorate has declined in recent years, the party in government and the
party organizations are stronger than ever.

My FRQ Response for 1999 Interest Group Question

A. The NAACP has successfully targeted both the executive and legislative branches for consideration of civil rights issues. Perhaps its most impressive victory was its role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Through its organizational campaigns which included sit-ins, boycotts, and other advocacy measures the NAACP brought international attention to the Jim Crow South that could not be ignored. The NAACP also successfully lobbied members of Congress as well as the President of the United States through phone calls and letter writing campaigns. A considerable amount of pressure was placed on Lyndon B. Johnson by the NAACP to convince the congress to pass the both the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

B. One resource that the NAACP draws upon is its prestige and historical record for successfully advocating civil rights issues for African-Americans. This interest group has been in existence for well over 100 years. Its former and current membership includes such luminary figures of the civil rights movement as the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Senator John Lewis as well as the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. When the NAACP gets involved with a dispute given its historical record and prestige, both the media and ultimately the congress often pays attention to their concerns.

C. Another resource that the NAACP draws upon is its extensive financial resources and substantial membership that have allowed it to lobby members of Congress for voting consideration and other matters. Through its large membership and extensive budget, the NAACP has been able to focus attention on certain congressional voting records (for better or worse). The NAACP like many interest groups, encourages its members to vote for certain candidates and to withhold support from others. Its extensive membership and financial resources make it an unavoidable force to be reckoned with.

Wednesday's Sabato Quiz

Class,

Here is the quiz for Wednesday corresponding to pages 434 to 440. See you tomorrow!

Sabato Quiz #3 on Political Parties

1) Who ran under the Reform Party?
A) Ross Perot
B) Jesse Ventura
C) Pat Buchanan
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above.

2) What is the most important function of national party chair?
A) to draft the platform
B) to raise money
C) to recruit candidates
D) to organize workshops for party volunteers
E) to distribute patronage

3) Every four years the parties nominate a presidential candidate through a
A) party platform.
B) smoke-filled-room procedure.
C) national convention.
D) conference committee.
E) national nominating committee.

4) The smallest unit of the party organization is
A) the county.
B) the district.
C) the region.
D) the state.
E) the precinct.

5) Organizations created to circumvent the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act that can receive
unlimited campaign donations are called
A) cluster clucks.
B) money grinders.
C) BCRAnaires.
D) dolezzas.
E) 527 groups.

6) Think tanks influence
A) party positions.
B) campaign funding.
C) congressional reformation.
D) social capital.
E) secular realignments.

7) Which of the following think tanks is more scholarly and less partisan?
A) the American Enterprise Institute
B) the Heritage Foundation
C) the Cato Institute
D) the Brookings Institution
E) the Open Society Institute

8) Which of the following was virtually unregulated?
A) soft money
B) hard money
C) campaign contributions to a political party
D) campaign contributions to a candidate
E) campaign contributions to a political action committee

9) Which of the following most accurately describes fundraising in the 2006 midterm elections?
A) Democrats raised nearly $100 million more than Republicans raised.
B) Republicans raised nearly $100 million more than Democrats raised.
C) Democrats and Republicans raised nearly equal amounts of money.
D) Democrats raised about half as much money as Republicans raised.
E) Republicans raised more money than the Democrats because Republicans accepted soft
money while Democrats did not.

10) Howard Dean revolutionized the use of
A) the plum book for rewarding patronage.
B) the Internet for raising campaign money.
C) the “Main Street” Internet site.
D) soft money.
E) EMILY’s List.

Tomorrow's Sabato Quiz

Hi Class,


Don't forget your FRQ on Interest Groups is due at beginning of class tomorrow. If you need a little help answering this one, go to the following link and view but DON'T COPY: http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/1999FRQ.doc
The Sabato reading for tomorrow is pages 426-33. The quiz is as follows:

Political Parties Quiz #2

1) Who ran a political machine?
A) William Tweed
B) Andrew Jackson
C) John Fremont
D) Barry Goldwater
E) Peter Wright

2) In a direct primary system, who selects party candidates?
A) political machines
B) party bosses
C) qualified voters
D) party conventions
E) party leaders

3) Progressives embraced
A) civil service laws.
B) political machines.
C) patronage.
D) strong political parties.
E) party conventions.

4) Civil service laws require
A) compulsory voting.
B) compulsory education through the tenth grade.
C) patronage.
D) appointment based on merit.
E) ticket splitting.

5) The decline in political parties brought about by the Progressive era reforms has led to
A) party machines.
B) candidate-centered politics.
C) party realignment.
D) secular realignment.
E) logrolling.

6) A shifting of party coalition groupings in the electorate that remains in place for several
elections is known as
A) punctuated misalignment.
B) an electoral tsunami.
C) ticket splitting.
D) party realignment.
E) a coalitional government.

7) Which of the following was a critical election?
A) James Polk in 1844
B) Franklin Pierce in 1852
C) Grover Cleveland in 1884
D) Franklin Roosevelt in 1932
E) Dwight Eisenhower in 1952

8) Where can one find proportional representation?
A) in the Senate
B) in the presidency
C) in Europe
D) in the California legislature
E) in the Nebraska legislature

9) Congressional elections use a
A) winner-take-all system.
B) proportional representation system.
C) instant runoff system.
D) party machine system.
E) platform party system.

10) Who ran under the Bull Moose Party?
A) George Wallace
B) Ross Perot
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Oliver North
E) Bernie Sanders

Tomorrow's Reading and Quiz

Class,

Actually this is a repost from last week. We will have the Sabato quiz on political parties tomorrow (11/29) to start things out:

http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/chapter12politicalparties.doc

Government Jeopardy for Test

US Government Students:

Copy and paste the following link into your browser for Exam Questions and Anwers: http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/legislativebranchjeapardy.ppt

Good Luck on the Test!

Mr. B.

Interest Group Work on Monday in the Library

Class,

Despite my desire to get back to the lecture material on Monday, I forgot that I set up the day for you to do some work on your Interest Group projects. I would say that you should have your background information already downloaded from home or library computers before Monday. Ideally, you would meet in your groups and map out who is doing what and begin the research/writing portion of the assignment. I placed an outline format on an earlier blog. I also posted a word version that you can find here: http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/interestgroupassignment.doc
Remember, the websites or most of your interest groups can be found here: http://mtbarclay.tripod.com/mrbarclaysgovernmentclassalisalhighschool200708/id18.html

This is one day in which you can work in class (okay, the library)on the project. Please use your time wisely and don't just use the occasion to socialize. Of course, I will be on hand to provide direction/feedback on your project.

I will check your binders for organzational accuracy therefore on Tuesday. It will be a quick walkaround for 20 points. The order again for the binders is as follows: Title Sheet on top of Binder ("AP Govt" your name and period. my syllabus in front before unit dividers (1) Lecture Notes (2) Pete Pew Notes (2) FRQ Write ups (3) Vocabulary Unit Handouts (4)Any worksheets with graphics (5) All readings related to Units. Unit tabs should be in place. All Testing information should be in back

tomorrow's Sabato

Class,

Check the link below for the Sabato quiz. Reading pages are 419-25. See you manna.
http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/chapter12politicalparties.doc

Monday's Sabato Reading Assignment

Class,

For Monday night's reading assignment, read pages: 594 to 602. You can find the Sabato quiz posted on the website here: http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/interestgroupsquiz3.doc

Cheers, Mr. B

Outline Form for Interest Group Assignment

Here is a format for you and group to consider for completing Interest Group Assignment. You may use another format if desired:


Interest Group Assignment (Substitute your Interest Group for the “AMA” Example Below)

Key Issues of Concern for (ie. “The AMA”)
* (minimum 5 sentences or bullets per section)
*
*
Legislation Related to (ie. “The AMA”)
*
*
*
Key Actions (ie. “The AMA”) Takes to Influence Policy and the Public Agenda:
*
*
*
Resources (ie. “The AMA”)Has to Make It Influential:
*
*
*
Parts of Government (ie. “The AMA”) Targets:
*
*
*
What (ie. “The AMA”) Does in Order to Support its Favorite Candidates:
*
*
*
(ie. “The AMA’s”) Political Ideology, the Legislation They Support and the Party They Support (or two news article summaries if your group is politically neutral):
*
*
*
The Strengths of (ie. “The AMA”):
*Back up with specific examples

The Weakness of (ie. “The AMA”)
*Back up with specific examples

Happy Veteran's Day

Period 3 Interest Group Assignments
MALDEF-M. Marquez

AMA-A. Velazquez

SIERRA CLUB-E. Montano

NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE-C. Cruz

GREENPEACE-J. Lopez

AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION-M. Vidales, L. Medina

GREENPEACE-J. Rabanal, P Morales

NOW-B. Aguirre

SIERRA CLUB-M. Zarazua, J. Cruz

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS-F. Ambriz

INDEPENDENT WOMEN’S FORUM-A. Flores, G. Rocha

HANDGUN CONTROL INC.-J. Zavala

NAACP-M. Guido

PETA-J. Rocha

NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE-M. Parker

AFL-CIO-J. Amaral

US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE-J. Curiel

CHRISTIAN COALITION-A. Figueroa, C. Gonzalez, M. Vargas

AMA-No name, but third choice of this person following GreenPeace, National Right to Life—reason given: “Honestly for this third choice I want to know a little bit more about it”…Do you recognize yourself by your quote 

Period 2 Interest Group Assignments

Period 2 students, you now have your "official" assignments. You may begin your interest group assignment now. Remember, it is due at the end of Unit 3. Let me know if you have any questions.

NCAAP
Andrew Saravia
Jameson Modzingira
Mike Wamagum

United Farm Workers (UFW)
Yajaira Medrano

WRA
Thalia Lomeli
Shaine Pearson
Ivan Ramos

Business Roundtable
Daniel Reyna

Handgun Control, Inc
Humberto Ramirez

Environmental Defense Fund
Alejandro Garcia
Johnny Alonzo

National Right to Life
Dominga Xirum

(MRC) Marine Resources Committee
Alejandra Madrigal

PETA
Viridiana Santoyo
Gaby Pantojo

Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Jessica Mendoza

American Medical Association
Stephanie Vargas
Cassie Fernandez

National Resource Defense Council
Mayra Mata Juarez
Tere Gutierrez
Jose Gonzalez Jr.
Christian Coalition
Sandra Vasquez

Center for Equal Opportunity
Valentin Lopez
Zague Villarreal
Nathaniel Distancia

Club for Growth
Jesus H Picero
National Right to Life
Karla Guillen

GreenPeace
Victor Gutierrez

AB 540 Scholarship Link

At the recommendation of Viri Santoyo, here is a link to scholarship info for students without a social security number: http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/e4fcab540scholarships11.pdf

BTW, I am sure ALL students (including those with social security numbers)are eligible for this money...

Thank you Viri for the suggestion!

2004 FRQ Answer Rubric and Model Response

Class,

Remember, your homework assignement is to check and grade your FRQ for tomorrow. The rubric for Question #2 can be found here:

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/repository/ap04_sg_gopo_us_37090.pdf

The "model" student answer can be found here:

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap04_gopous_q2_38679.pdf

IMPORTANT: For the model student response, refer to the last student FRQ or "C." That was the response that earned all 8 points.

Also, be prepared to turn in your choices for interest groups. That was the handout that had "first," "second," or "third" choice with rationale. Also include the name(s) of your team members. Remind me if I forget to ask you...

FRQ Warm Up for Tomorrow

Here is an FRQ warm up for tomorrow in lieu of a Sabato quiz. Look at the notes from today and you should be able to answer it:

Different interest groups will choose different techniques(tactics) to achieve their
objectives based on their resources, characteristics and goals.
a. Describe each of the following techniques and explain why an interest
group would choose each technique.
• Litigation
• Campaign contributions
• Grassroots lobbying/mass mobilization
b. Select one of the following groups and identify the primary technique it
uses from the list in part (a). Explain why the group you selected would
employ that technique over the other two techniques.
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• Sierra Club
• National Rifle Association (NRA)
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Interest Group Assignment

Interest Group Assignment
Due: At End of Unit


1. Pick one of the interest groups listed on my webpage (http://mtbarclay.tripod.com/mrbarclaysgovernmentclassalisalhighschool200708/id18.html). You are free to pick another group if you have a different choice. Just ask or email me to be sure you have made a good choice.

2. Go to that group’s web site. I have link on my links page. Do NOT rely solely on the group’s site. Also, go to News Google and search for information on your group. That will help you find what issues they’ve been involved in recently. Research the following topics and type up a report (about three pages, double-spaced) covering those topics. You can simply put the topic as a heading and then give the information on that topic. (This isn’t meant to be a thesis-driven, unified essay.) You can give your information in a bullet-points list. Keep a list of sources you use and include them in your final product.

A. What are the issues your group is concerned with? What are some examples of legislation your group supports or opposes? What actions does your group take to try to influence policy and the public agenda? Is it involved in litigation? Give details. What resources make it influential? Give specific examples: (e.g. use of the media, law suits, direct lobbying, public information contributions, etc.) Which parts of the government does your group target, i.e. which executive branch departments and congressional committees?

B. What is the group’s political ideology? Does it favor one political party over the other? If so, does it have a history of supporting certain political candidates? What is it doing to support its favored candidates? What endorsements has it made? Make the connection between their political ideology, the legislation they support, and the party they support.

OR

If you think your group is absolutely neutral, say so. Many interest groups are neutral. Discuss the issues that your group is concerned with and then, for the points in this section you will do the following. Find and summarize two news articles relevant to your interest group. You can use http://news.google.com/ to find such articles. Use the information to show how your group is trying to influence public policy.

C. Assess your group: What are its strengths and weaknesses? How effective is it in achieving its agenda? Back up what you say with specific examples demonstrating their effectiveness or lack thereof.

Include citations of sources you use or lose 10 points. Here is how a website should be cited. Follow this model for History and Social Sciences papers.

"AARP." http://www.aarp.org/ (accessed 10/16/10).

Staple the rubric to the front of your paper or lose 10 points.

For Period 5, "Model" 2001 FRQ

2001 FRQ on Amending the Constitution

Two formal ways of amending the constitution are having the amendment proposed by 2/3 of both houses of Congress and ¾ of state legislatures ratify the amendment. This way has happened 27 times. The second way is having the amendment proposed by 2/3 of both houses and ¾ of special state conventions ratifying , as with the repeal of prohibition.

Two informal ways to change the constitution are by using the elastic/”necessary and proper” clause or by Supreme Court decisions. The elastic clause was used in expanding the role of Congress in interstate commerce. Congress can now regulate anything that crosses state borders. Supreme Court decisions have been used to change the meaning of the Constitution like in cases where they nationalized the Bill of Rights through the 14th Amendment. The elastic clause states that congress can do anything “necessary and proper” to carry out their expressed powers.

Informal methods are used most often because it takes much less work than formal methods. A lot of support is needed to add an amendment to the Constitution. It is much less difficult to change the Constitution with the elastic clause or Supreme Court decisions.

Election Night

Hi Class,

Hopefully, you are watching/listening to some of the Election Day coverage. It appears that the trends toward a Republican majority in the House and a narrow Democrat Senate lead is the way its going to turn out...We'll see. At 7:00 p.m., the night is still young.

Career Faire (in Hadden Gym) at least half of the classtime. We'll hold off on the Sabato quiz until Thursday. Here it is:

Sabato Interest Groups Quiz #2 for pages 585 to 592

1) Which of the following is a single-issue group?
A) MoveOn.org
B) AARP
C) U.S. Chamber of Commerce
D) National Rifle Association
E) NAACP

2) The right of citizens to form groups and to petition the government for changes in public
policies is protected by
A) the First Amendment.
B) the interest group clause.
C) the supremacy clause.
D) the interstate commerce clause.
E) the takings clause.

3) What did the Clayton Act do?
A) It allowed labor unions to form and guaranteed their right to strike.
B) It established open shop laws.
C) It granted vast swaths of land to the Central Pacific Railroad.
D) It allowed Standard Oil to drill on publicly owned land in Pennsylvania.
E) It required interest groups to share their membership lists with the government.

4) All of the following groups formed or reenergized during the 1960s or the 1970s EXCEPT
A) the American Civil Liberties Union.
B) the NAACP.
C) the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
D) Common Cause.
E) the Christian Coalition.

5) During the 1960s and 1970s, what kinds of interest groups were most successful?
A) public interest and civil rights groups
B) conservative and Republican interest groups
C) religious and social conservative interest groups
D) gay and lesbian interest groups
E) faith-based and community imitative groups

6) Which new interest group helped elect Ronald Reagan?
A) Focus on the Family
B) the Moral Majority
C) Unsafe at Any Speed
D) Onward Christian Soldiers
E) Public Citizen, Inc.

7) Which of the following interest groups was the most instrumental in electing Republican
members of Congress in 1994 and in electing George W. Bush?
A) the National Electric Light Association
B) the 700 Club
C) the Christian Coalition
D) Common Cause
E) the National Association of Manufacturers



8) Who founded the Christian Coalition?
A) Ted Haggard
B) Jerry Falwell
C) Pat Robertson
D) James Dobson
E) Jimmy Swaggart

9) What is a voter guide?
A) instructions on how to use voting technology distributed by local election boards
B) summaries of candidatesʹ issue positions distributed by interest groups
C) lists of candidates officially endorsed by interest groups
D) descriptions of the job experiences of candidates distributed by public interest groups
E) calendars distributed by interest groups that contain the dates of upcoming elections

10) Which interest group has been successful under the George W. Bush administration and has
been described as ʺa fraternity of powerful and prestigious business leaders that tells
ʹbusinessʹs side of the storyʹ to legislators, bureaucrats, White House personnel, and other
interested public officials.ʺ
A) A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
B) the Council for Economic Growth
C) the National Association of Manufacturers
D) the Chamber of Commerce
E) the Business Roundtable

Due on Monday

The following assignments are due on Monday:

(1) Richard Hoffstader Reading (from The American Political Tradition)-20
(2) West Wing: The Short List-15
(3) Federalist 51 Worksheet-20
(4) Tony Barrera Survey and Reflection-20
(5) Landmark Decisions: Marbury v. Madison-15
(6) O'Connor and Breyer Discussion-20
(7) Public Spending Per Capita-20
(8) Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation Worksheet-15
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Also, for those of you who haven't turned the 2 assignments that were due on Monday, it's still worth your while to turn them in. I will only grade them down ONE letter grade, not 50%!!!

(a) Constitutional Scavenger Hunt-50
(b) Pew Notes Study Guide-30

P.S. Also Sabato pages 582-585

Questions:

Chapter 16 Interest Groups

1) Who was the D.C. lobbyist who pled guiltily to conspiracy, fraud, and tax evasion in 2006?
A) Tom DeLay
B) Robert Ney
C) Conrad Burns
D) Jack Abramoff
E) Robert Putnam

2) After paying for a lobbyist, Treasure Island, Florida received a $50 million appropriation in the
federal budget. This is called
A) casework.
B) logrolling.
C) constituency service.
D) an earmark.
E) a frank.

3) Involvement in community groups and activities
A) enhances social capital.
B) fosters self-reliance.
C) hinders resolution of collective action problems.
D) enhances the Protestant work ethic.
E) hinders economic and political development.

4) To which of the following groups are contemporary citizens most likely to belong?
A) bowling leagues
B) Elks Club
C) League of Women Voters
D) Lions Club
E) community associations

5) According to disturbance theory, why do interest groups form?
A) to serve the public good
B) to promote the well being of civil servants
C) to counteract the effects of other groups
D) to bother government
E) to bolster the economy

6) What kind of interest group focuses its attention on achieving collective goods?
A) public interest groups
B) economic interest groups
C) trade association groups
D) governmental units
E) political action committees

7) Common Cause, peace groups, environmental organizations, and other such groups are
examples of ________ interest groups.
A) social capital
B) civic virtue
C) public
D) economic
E) libertarian

8) A labor union is an example of a
A) public interest group.
B) economic interest group.
C) trade association group.
D) governmental unit.
E) political action committee.





9) Governmental units typically lobby for
A) political action committees.
B) trade associations.
C) foreign aid.
D) PETA.
E) earmarks.

10) Corporations can contribute money to political campaigns by forming
A) EIDs.
B) PACs.
C) 528 groups.
D) subsidiaries.
E) caucuses.

Info for Unit 1 Exam

Dear Students,

I would like to remind you that the Unit 1 exam will be administered this Tuesday. On Monday we will prepare for the exam. Additionally, we will start the period with the vocabulary quiz. That should take no longer than 10 minutes. We will use the remaining time on Monday to prepare for the exam.

On Tuesday, the following assignments will be due at the beginning of class:

(1) The Constitutional Scavenger Hunt
(2) Pew Pew Study Guide

If not turned in at beginning of class on Tuesday, all assignments will be marked down by 50%. No exceptions.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Tomorrow's End of Chapter 3 Quiz

Class,

For tomorrow please make sure to finish chapter 3 (pages 115 to 120). Here is the posted quiz for tomorrow!

Who Loves You, Baby!!!


Sabato End of Chapter 3 Test

1) In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, various federal, state, and local government
agencies worked together as like a well choreographed machine.
2) There are about 10,000 state and local governments in the United States.
3) The Constitution divided the power between state and national government in order to create
a confederation.
4) The supremacy clause of the Constitution mandates that state laws supersede national laws.
5) The necessary and proper clause is the root of Congressʹs implied powers.
6) The power to coin money is an enumerated power.
7) Taxation is a concurrent power.
8) Both the United States and Mexico have a federal system of government.
9) The Constitution specifically enumerates powers to the state and national governments.
10) The Tenth Amendment grants police powers to the national government.
11) The Constitution was designed to provide a mechanism for resolving interstate disputes.
12) Whether same-sex marriages preformed in one state are valid in another state will likely
depend on how the Supreme Court interprets the full faith and credit clause of the
Constitution.
13) The Constitution requires states to extradite criminals to states where they are to stand trial or
have been convicted.
14) In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), the Supreme Court ruled that the commerce clause could not
be used to reduce state powers.
15) In Gibbons v. Ogden, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a very narrow interpretation of the
commerce clause.
16) In Dred Scott v. Sanford, the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were three-fifths of a person.
17) The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments enhanced the power of the national government
at the expense of the states.
18) The New Deal was a package of policies introduced by the Roosevelt administration to
remedy the Great Depression through federal action.
19) The Supreme Court was initially rather supportive of Rooseveltʹs attempts to deal with the
Great Depression.
20) The New Deal period (1933-1939) was characterized by intense governmental activity on the
national level.
21) After Roosevelt unveiled his court-packing plan, the Supreme Court upheld most of the New
Deal programs.
22) Metaphorically, cooperative federalism is similar to a layer cake.
23) The Civil War and the Great Depression were two of the historical incidents that tended to
consolidate national powers at the expense of state powers.
24) Categorical grants often require matching state funding.
25) A cornerstone of Lyndon Johnsonʹs ʺGreat Societyʺ program was an effort to provide universal
health care.
26) Jimmy Carter was a strong advocate for New Federalism, in which the national government
attempted to address social and economic strife throughout the United States.
27) Increased government authority in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks has
some concerned that governments may be infringing on citizensʹ civil liberties.
28) Block grants are federal monies given to the states with few strings attached. Republicans
generally favor block grants over categorical grants.
29) The 1994 Republican Contract called for scaling back the scope of the national government.
30) Under the banner of New Federalism, Republicans advocated for an increased use of
unfunded mandates.
31) After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the federal government expanded dramatically.
32) During the 1980s and 1990s, the Supreme Court increased federal authority in a number of
areas, including abortion, education, and health care.
33) Due to the Supreme Courtʹs decision in Stenberg v. Carhart, American women have equal
access to abortion services regardless of where they live.
34) The Supreme Court has upheld the Violence Against Women Act, citing Congressʹs authority
to enact laws that are ʺnecessary and properʺ for ensuring domestic tranquility.

FRQ for Warm Up Tomorrow

Class,

In place of a Sabato quiz you will be given the the 2003 FRQ #3 write up that you can find here:

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_questions/2086.html#name03

Copy the 2003 FRQ and download it. Attempt to answer it. Use any of the resources provided at the site to help. You may bring your write up to tomorrow's "quiz."

Check This Article Out and Comment on It....

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/weekinreview/17abramson.html

The link above is to an article in this Sunday's New York Times based on last year's US Supreme Court Citizen's United Case. Read the article and comment on the post. Are Corporate Donation's a First Amendment Right?

Post for Monday

Hello Class,

Hope you are having a great weekend! A reminder that City Council Member Mr. Tony Barrera will be visiting class on Monday. For those students in period 3 who were not in attendance on Friday for homework, you need to put together 10 questions to ask Mr. Barrera. He will definitely be asking if you have questions, so please be prepared.

He represents the Eastside so any questions you may have about the community will be fine. He said: "they can ask me anything they want." Please have the 10 questions ready. I will grade them when I do your next binder check. Also, you will be asked to write a reflection on Mr. Barrera's visit. I'll have the writing topic for you on Tuesday.


Also for Tuesday, read Sabato pages 108 to 114. Here is the posted quiz:

Sabato Quiz #4

1) During the early years of the New Deal, the Supreme Court
A) ruled many programs unconstitutional.
B) continued to enforce the supremacy clause, thus ruling New Deal programs
constitutional.
C) cooperated with the administration to combat the depression.
D) worked in favor of programs designed to combat the crisis.
E) argued that ʺextraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.ʺ

2) During the early years of the New Deal, the attitude of the Supreme Court toward federal
economic intervention could be characterized as
A) enthusiastic.
B) laissez-faire.
C) interventionist.
D) activist.
E) collectivist.

3) In response to the Supreme Courtʹs opposition to many New Deal programs, President
Roosevelt suggested
A) impeaching the entire Supreme Court.
B) reducing the pay of sitting Supreme Court justices.
C) increasing the number of justices from nine to 13.
D) disbanding the Supreme Court.
E) giving the Supreme Courtʹs jurisdiction to the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia.

4) New Deal programs led to an era of ________ federalism.
A) carrot cake
B) apple pie
C) marble cake
D) cherry turnover
E) upside-down cake

5) Cooperative federalism is characterized by
A) a stronger national government.
B) stronger state governments.
C) a shift in power from the national to state governments.
D) stronger municipal governments.
E) a distinct division of authority between the national and the state governments.

6) What are categorical grants?
A) Money given to the national government for ʺparty building activities.ʺ
B) Money given to state governments for specific purposes.
C) Money borrowed from citizens to pay war debts.
D) Money borrowed from citizens to pay for the New Deal programs.
E) Money allocated by the president to ʺenhance the general welfareʺ of the national
government.

7) After the New Deal, the next major effort to use significant national government resources to
remedy societal problems was
A) Harry S. Trumanʹs ʺWar for the Middle Class.ʺ
B) Dwight Eisenhowerʹs ʺMaster Plan.ʺ
C) John F. Kennedyʹs ʺAsk What Your Country Can Do For Youʺ initiative.
D) Lyndon B. Johnsonʹs ʺGreat Societyʺ program.
E) Jimmy Carterʹs ʺCompassionate Countryʺ program.

8) What did Ronald Reagan have in mind when he advocated for ʺNew Federalismʺ?
A) The national government should return power to the states.
B) The national government should expand its powers by aggressively using the commerce
clause.
C) The national government should regulate economic conditions, but state governments
should determine social policies.
D) States should shoulder a greater burden of paying for Congressional mandates.
E) A return to the relationship between the national government and the state governments
that existed during the New Deal.

9) National laws that direct state or local governments to comply with federal rules or
regulations without providing funds to defray the costs are called
A) unfunded mandates.
B) block grants.
C) the Contract with America.
D) the new federalism.
E) Reaganomics.

10) Which of the following expanded the authority of the national government?
A) New Federalism
B) devolution
C) block grants
D) United States v. Lopez
E) the No Child Left Behind Act

Hump Day!

Here is tomorrow's quiz for Sabato reading pages 105 to 108:

Sabato Federalism Quiz #3

1) What is the significance of the Court’s decision in Gibbons v. Ogden?
A) Maryland could not create a national bank.
B) Congress must provide ʺdue compensationʺ when it exercises its power of eminent
domain.
C) The president has broad foreign policy powers beyond those explicitly granted in the
Constitution.
D) Congress has broad authority under the commerce clause.
E) The full faith and credit clause does not apply to unmarried couples.

2) The doctrine, applied by the Taney Court, that the national government should not exceed its
enumerated powers is called
A) the full faith and credit doctrine.
B) the doctrine of implied powers.
C) confederation.
D) dual federalism.
E) the emancipation doctrine.

3) In Dred Scott v. Sandford the Supreme Court ruled
A) in favor of Dred Scott.
B) the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
C) that slavery could not extend into the territories.
D) for a broad interpretation of the takings clause.
E) that slavery was an immoral “stain upon the Union.”

4) In which 1857 decision did the Supreme Court rule that slaves were not citizens, but property?
A) McCulloch v. Maryland
B) Plessy v. Ferguson
C) Gibbons v. Ogden
D) Dred Scott v. Sandford
E) Gonzales v. Raich

5) The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that
A) separate but equal was inherently unconstitutional.
B) the states had very limited police powers under the Tenth Amendment.
C) racial segregation was constitutional.
D) states could not protect the general welfare of their citizens.
E) all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States.

6) What was the impact of the Sixteenth Amendment on federalism?
A) It increased the power of the state governments by granting them sovereign immunity.
B) It codified the doctrine of dual federalism.
C) It codified the doctrine of concurrent powers.
D) It enhanced states’ rights.
E) It enabled the federal government to expand its power by giving it more money to
spend.

7) The Seventeenth Amendment
A) required that U.S. Senators be elected directly by the people.
B) punished the South for the Civil War.
C) enhanced the power of the states.
D) was an unsuccessful attempt to guarantee former slaves the right to vote.
E) successfully guaranteed former slaves the right to vote.

8) The era of dual federalism ended with the
A) Civil War.
B) Great Depression.
C) Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
D) passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
E) doctrine of implied powers.

9) How did Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover react to the worsening economic
situations of the 1920s?
A) They launched the New Deal.
B) They created the Works Progress Administration.
C) They abandoned the doctrine of nullification and established the Federal Reserve Board.
D) They did very little, believing it was the responsibility of state governments.
E) They established the Social Security Administration to serve the needs of the elderly and
the impoverished.

10) What is the New Deal?
A) An expansive use of federal government authority in an attempt to end the Great
Depression.
B) Franklin Roosevelt’s proposal to strengthen the state governments.
C) Theodore Roosevelt’s proposal to strengthen the state governments.
D) A failed attempt to restore the doctrine of dual federalism.
E) A successful attempt to restore the doctrine of sovereign immunity.

So Happy It's Thursday

Class,

Here is info on the Rutger's Suicide. Issues include right to privacy, suicide, homophobia: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/rutgers-suicide-latest-linked-gay-humiliation/story?id=11766816

Also, an interesting Supreme Court case concerning protesting at funerals: http://articles.cnn.com/2010-03-08/politics/homosexuality.protest_1_topeka-based-westboro-baptist-church-funerals-protests?_s=PM:POLITICS

Please comment on blog for either two stories or both....

Read Sabato pages 105 to 108 from Chapter 3. This quiz questions here:

Chapter 3; Quiz 3

1) In McCulloch v. Maryland (1816), the Supreme Court ruled that
A) state laws trump national laws.
B) the supremacy clause prohibits states from taxing the federal government.
C) the scope of Congressʹs authority to create laws is strictly limited to the enumerated
powers.
D) the full faith and credit clause provides sufficient collateral to establish a national bank.
E) Congress has the power of judicial review over laws passed by the states.

2) The McCulloch v. Maryland (1816) decision continues to be important today because
A) it established the sovereignty of state governments.
B) it enabled Congress to use the necessary and proper clause to widen its policymaking
scope.
C) the national bank continues to be the foundation of the American dollar.
D) Maryland continues to enjoy immunity from federal laws that regulate banking in every
other state.
E) it established the precedent of stare decisis.

3) What is the significance of the Courtʹs decision in Gibbons v. Ogden?
A) Maryland could not create a national bank.
B) Congress must provide ʺdue compensationʺ when it exercises its power of eminent
domain.
C) The president has broad foreign policy powers beyond those explicitly granted in the
Constitution.
D) Congress has broad authority under the commerce clause.
E) The full faith and credit clause does not apply to unmarried couples.

4) The doctrine, applied by the Taney Court, that the national government should not exceed its
enumerated powers is called
A) the full faith and credit doctrine.
B) the doctrine of implied powers.
C) confederation.
D) dual federalism.
E) the emancipation doctrine.

5) In Dred Scott v. Sandford the Supreme Court ruled
A) in favor of Dred Scott.
B) the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
C) that slavery could not extend into the territories.
D) for a broad interpretation of the takings clause.
E) that slavery was an immoral ʺstain upon the Union.ʺ

6) In which 1857 decision did the Supreme Court rule that slaves were not citizens, but property?
A) McCulloch v. Maryland
B) Plessy v. Ferguson
C) Gibbons v. Ogden
D) Dred Scott v. Sandford
E) Gonzales v. Raich

7) The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that
A) separate but equal was inherently unconstitutional.
B) the states had very limited police powers under the Tenth Amendment.
C) racial segregation was constitutional.
D) states could not protect the general welfare of their citizens.
E) all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States.

8) What was the impact of the Sixteenth Amendment on federalism?
A) It increased the power of the state governments by granting them sovereign immunity.
B) It codified the doctrine of dual federalism.
C) It codified the doctrine of concurrent powers.
D) It enhanced statesʹ rights.
E) It enabled the federal government to expand its power by giving it more money to
spend.

9) The Seventeenth Amendment
A) required that U.S. Senators be elected directly by the people.
B) punished the South for the Civil War.
C) enhanced the power of the states.
D) was an unsuccessful attempt to guarantee former slaves the right to vote.
E) successfully guaranteed former slaves the right to vote.

10) The era of dual federalism ended with the
A) Civil War.
B) Great Depression.
C) Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
D) passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
E) doctrine of implied powers.

Sabato Federalism Quiz #2

Class,

Read Sabato pages 101 to 105 for tomorrow's quiz posted below:

Chapter 3; Quiz 2

1) What are the police powers?
A) those powers granted to Congress by the Constitution
B) those powers granted to the president by the Constitution
C) those powers which are ʺnecessary and properʺ for carrying out the enumerated powers
D) those powers reserved to the states by the Tenth Amendment
E) those powers protected by the supremacy clause

2) Who has concurrent powers?
A) only the state governments
B) only the national government
C) only Congress
D) only the president
E) both the state governments and the national government


3) Under the Constitution, governments are prohibited from passing
A) economic regulations.
B) writs of habeas corpus.
C) ex post facto laws.
D) revenue measures.
E) block grants.


4) Why was the Tenth Amendment added to the Constitution?
A) concern among Anti-Federalists that the national government would claim powers
otherwise belonging to the states
B) to ensure that a state could not sue the national government without its permission
C) because the Constitution failed to list powers belonging to the national government
D) in order to minimize the economic hardships of the Founders
E) because Chief Justice John Marshall refused to hear cases involving constitutional issues,
noting that the Constitution does not explicitly grant to power of judicial review to the
judiciary


5) A law declaring an act illegal without a judicial trial is called a(n)
A) bill of attainder.
B) writ of mandamus.
C) ex post facto law.
D) habeas corpus act.
E) ex officio law.


6) The clause that ensures that judicial decrees and contracts made in one state will be binding
and enforceable in another is called the ________ clause.
A) privileges and immunities
B) full faith and credit
C) extraordinary rendition
D) bill of attainder
E) supremacy


7) How are local governments established?
A) by an act of Congress
B) by submitting an interstate compact to the attorney general
C) by state governments
D) by application to the United States Court of Federal Claims
E) by executive orders issued by the president


8) In the early 1800s, who was the Chief Justice who oversaw important federalism decisions,
including Marbury v. Madison and Gibbons v. Ogden?
A) Robert Bork
B) Oliver Ellsworth
C) Brushrod Washington
D) John Marshall
E) Oliver Wendell Holmes


9) In McCulloch v. Maryland (1816), the Supreme Court ruled that
A) Congress could use the necessary and proper clause to charter a national bank.
B) Maryland could not create a state bank because it is an enumerated power given
explicitly to Congress.
C) James McCulloch could not establish a bank in Maryland because he did not own
property in the state.
D) the Declaration of Independence does not carry any legal force.
E) the Commerce Clause is unconstitutionally vague and, therefore, prohibits establishing a
bank.


10) In McCulloch v. Maryland (1816), the Supreme Court ruled that
A) state laws trump national laws.
B) the supremacy clause prohibits states from taxing the federal government.
C) the scope of Congressʹs authority to create laws is strictly limited to the enumerated
powers.
D) the full faith and credit clause provides sufficient collateral to establish a national bank.
E) Congress has the power of judicial review over laws passed by the states.

Monday's Post

Class, Here's the quiz for tomorrow. A reminder to read pages 95 to 101. There is also an interesting post related to Arizona recinding "ethnic studies" programs. This is a fertile topic to write on. For some reason, I am unable to place Sabato Quiz on webpage, therefore here it is in blog:

Federalism Quiz #1

1) Which of the following best describes the ability of the various levels of government to work
together in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?
A) State, local, and federal governments worked together seamlessly.
B) State and local governments worked with each other seamlessly, but did not coordinate
their activities with the federal government.
C) The government of Louisiana and the federal government worked together seamlessly,
but the Mayor of New Orleans preferred to work independently.
D) State, local, and federal governments were not able to coordinate effectively.
E) While state, local, and federal governments worked together well in the immediate
aftermath of the hurricane, their ability to coordinate dissipated as the crisis unfolded.

2) The most common type of government in the United States is the
A) county government.
B) township government.
C) municipal government.
D) school district.
E) special district.

3) What system of government is used in the United States?
A) a federal system
B) a confederation
C) a fiscal system
D) a unitary system
E) a renal system

4) Which type of government derives all of its power from the states?
A) socialism
B) a federal system
C) a confederation
D) a unitary system
E) a theocracy

5) Article I, section 8 gives Congress the power to pass all laws “necessary and proper” to
carrying out its enumerated powers. This clause is also known as the
A) enumerated powers clause.
B) reserve powers clause.
C) implied powers clause.
D) full faith and credit clause.
E) expressed powers clause.

6) In a federal system, the states derive their power from ________ and the national government
derives its power from ________.
A) the national government; the state governments
B) the state legislature; Congress
C) the states; the people
D) the people; the states
E) the people; the people

7) Which of the following is a concurrent power?
A) taxation
B) coining money
C) establishing federal courts
D) regulating commerce within a state
E) conducting war

8) Where state law conflicts with national law, national law prevails due to
A) federalism.
B) the supremacy clause.
C) the Tenth Amendment.
D) full faith and credit.
E) sovereign immunity.

9) Which of the following best describes the powers explicitly granted to state governments by
the Constitution?
A) State governments were given the enumerated powers.
B) State governments were given the expressed powers.
C) State governments were given the implied powers.
D) The powers granted to the state governments are spelled out in Article V of the
Constitution.
E) State government powers are not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution.

10) Identify the following phrase: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
A) the establishment clause
B) the full faith and credit clause
C) the enumerated powers
D) Article I, section 8
E) the Tenth Amendment

Arizona’s Gov. Brewer Signs Ethnic Studies Ban Into Law - COLORLINES

Arizona’s Gov. Brewer Signs Ethnic Studies Ban Into Law - COLORLINES

Model Student Answer for 2001 FRQ on Amending Constitution

See how close your answer matches with this one, which earned all 9 points on the FRQ portion of the exam. You can easily substitute Supreme Court decisions (like Brown v. Board) as well as Congressional Acts for the answer provide below....

2001 FRQ on Amending the Constitution

Two formal ways of amending the constitution are having the amendment proposed by 2/3 of both houses of Congress and ¾ of state legislatures ratify the amendment. This way has happened 27 times. The second way is having the amendment proposed by 2/3 of both houses and ¾ of special state conventions ratifying , as with the repeal of prohibition.

Two informal ways to change the constitution are by using the elastic/”necessary and proper” clause or by Supreme Court decisions. The elastic clause was used in expanding the role of Congress in interstate commerce. Congress can now regulate anything that crosses state borders. Supreme Court decisions have been used to change the meaning of the Constitution like in cases where they nationalized the Bill of Rights through the 14th Amendment. The elastic clause states that congress can do anything “necessary and proper” to carry out their expressed powers.

Informal methods are used most often because it takes much less work than formal methods. A lot of support is needed to add an amendment to the Constitution. It is much less difficult to change the Constitution with the elastic clause or Supreme Court decisions.

Test

Test...

Model Student Answer to 2000 FRQ

A1. One problem of decentralized power that existed under the Articles of Confederation was the lack of a national currency. With no national currency, it was hard for states to trade with one another which led to tensions. People within the states also didn’t trust the value of the state’s particular currency which led to hyper-inflation in some cases.

A2. The Constitution under Article I gave Congress the power to coin money, banning the states from printing their own. This created a national currency for all states to use.

B1. Another problem of decentralized power that existed under the Articles of Confederation was that the nation lacked a strong central government. If issues or disputes arose within or between states, there was no national arbiter to settle these problems. Shay’s Rebellion was a case study in just how weak government in the United States was at that time. A group of angry farmers stormed the local government demanding back pensions and a halt to their farms being taken away due to taxes. Who could stand up to this rebellion?

B2. As the result of Shay’s Rebellion a national military was established under the Constitution that was capable of putting down any rebellion that could threaten the new republic.

C1. Another problem of decentralized power was the lack of a Chief Executive or president. Colonial shipping was openly victim to pirate attacks by both Great Britain and France. The fact that the colonies had no national leader to negotiate shipping issues and other treaties made the United States particularly weak and open to exploitation.

C2. Under Article II of the Constitution, a Chief Executive was created giving him the power to wage war and negotiate treaties as necessary. The Founding Fathers were careful not to give this leader too much power. They infused the Constitution with checks and balances to ensure that the Chief Executive would be answerable to the people.

D1. There are tensions between centralized and decentralized powers within the United States when considering the issue of gun control. In the case of Washington DC, the federal government has overruled a 20 year ban on concealed weapons, despite the DC’s desire to keep the ban in effect. The US Supreme Court citing the 2nd Amendment, overturned state law to the protestations of law enforcement agents and the district’s mayor.

Happy Friday!

Hi Class,

Missed you today. Hope your Friday was productive in APGOPO. How was the reading? On Monday you will have the Chapter 1 Review True/False quiz. It has 39 questions. You can find it here: http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/1.2truefalsequestions.doc

Keep reading Chapter 2 to the next 10 pages. We'll begin quizzes on Chapter 2 on Tuesday. Have a great weekend!!!

Reading for Tomorrow

Tomorrow I will take the day off. I've been fighting a cold/flu for the past few days. Me and Netflix have a date with destiny....As for you guys, I will have a reading written by political scientist Richard Hofstadter--The Founding Fathers an Age of Realism. This reading should further clarify Madison's Federalist 51 and also clearly discuss the motivations and "suspicions" of the Founding Fathers in writing the constitution. It might seem lengthy to you at first glance, but is well written and much easier to digest than James Madison. There will be five questions to answer on page four of the article. Hopefully, you will have a cool sub. I told the sub that your reading should be completed with most questions answered by the end of the period. You will turn in your answers at the end of the period. The assignment will be worth twenty points, so make good use of your time. See you on Monday!

Federalist #51

Tomorrow, we will read in class Madison's Federalist #51. There will be a question set handed out for completion in class. If you want a head start go ahead and read it tonite:

The Federalist No. 51
The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments
Independent Journal
Wednesday, February 6, 1788
[James Madison]
To the People of the State of New York:

TO WHAT expedient, then, shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in the Constitution? The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places. Without presuming to undertake a full development of this important idea, I will hazard a few general observations, which may perhaps place it in a clearer light, and enable us to form a more correct judgment of the principles and structure of the government planned by the convention. (1)

In order to lay a due foundation for that separate and distinct exercise of the different powers of government, which to a certain extent is admitted on all hands to be essential to the preservation of liberty, it is evident that each department should have a will of its own; and consequently should be so constituted that the members of each should have as little agency as possible in the appointment of the members of the others. Were this principle rigorously adhered to, it would require that all the appointments for the supreme executive, legislative, and judiciary magistracies should be drawn from the same fountain of authority, the people, through channels having no communication whatever with one another. Perhaps such a plan of constructing the several departments would be less difficult in practice than it may in contemplation appear. Some difficulties, however, and some additional expense would attend the execution of it. Some deviations, therefore, from the principle must be admitted. In the constitution of the judiciary department in particular, it might be inexpedient to insist rigorously on the principle: first, because peculiar qualifications being essential in the members, the primary consideration ought to be to select that mode of choice which best secures these qualifications; secondly, because the permanent tenure by which the appointments are held in that department, must soon destroy all sense of dependence on the authority conferring them. (2)

It is equally evident, that the members of each department should be as little dependent as possible on those of the others, for the emoluments annexed to their offices. Were the executive magistrate, or the judges, not independent of the legislature in this particular, their independence in every other would be merely nominal. (3)

But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. (4)

This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public. We see it particularly displayed in all the subordinate distributions of power, where the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other -- that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights. These inventions of prudence cannot be less requisite in the distribution of the supreme powers of the State. (5)

But it is not possible to give to each department an equal power of self-defense. In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this inconveniency is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them, by different modes of election and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions and their common dependence on the society will admit. It may even be necessary to guard against dangerous encroachments by still further precautions. As the weight of the legislative authority requires that it should be thus divided, the weakness of the executive may require, on the other hand, that it should be fortified. An absolute negative on the legislature appears, at first view, to be the natural defense with which the executive magistrate should be armed. But perhaps it would be neither altogether safe nor alone sufficient. On ordinary occasions it might not be exerted with the requisite firmness, and on extraordinary occasions it might be perfidiously abused. May not this defect of an absolute negative be supplied by some qualified connection between this weaker department and the weaker branch of the stronger department, by which the latter may be led to support the constitutional rights of the former, without being too much detached from the rights of its own department? (6)

If the principles on which these observations are founded be just, as I persuade myself they are, and they be applied as a criterion to the several State constitutions, and to the federal Constitution it will be found that if the latter does not perfectly correspond with them, the former are infinitely less able to bear such a test. (7)

There are, moreover, two considerations particularly applicable to the federal system of America, which place that system in a very interesting point of view. (8)

First. In a single republic, all the power surrendered by the people is submitted to the administration of a single government; and the usurpations are guarded against by a division of the government into distinct and separate departments. In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself. (9)

Second. It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Different interests necessarily exist in different classes of citizens. If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure. There are but two methods of providing against this evil: the one by creating a will in the community independent of the majority -- that is, of the society itself; the other, by comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable. The first method prevails in all governments possessing an hereditary or self-appointed authority. This, at best, is but a precarious security; because a power independent of the society may as well espouse the unjust views of the major, as the rightful interests of the minor party, and may possibly be turned against both parties. The second method will be exemplified in the federal republic of the US. (10)

Whilst all authority in it will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority. In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects. The degree of security in both cases will depend on the number of interests and sects; and this may be presumed to depend on the extent of country and number of people comprehended under the same government. This view of the subject must particularly recommend a proper federal system to all the sincere and considerate friends of republican government, since it shows that in exact proportion as the territory of the Union may be formed into more circumscribed Confederacies, or States oppressive combinations of a majority will be facilitated: the best security, under the republican forms, for the rights of every class of citizens, will be diminished: and consequently the stability and independence of some member of the government, the only other security, must be proportionately increased. Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the stronger individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradnally induced, by a like motive, to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful. It can be little doubted that if the State of Rhode Island was separated from the Confederacy and left to itself, the insecurity of rights under the popular form of government within such narrow limits would be displayed by such reiterated oppressions of factious majorities that some power altogether independent of the people would soon be called for by the voice of the very factions whose misrule had proved the necessity of it. In the extended republic of the United States, and among the great variety of interests, parties, and sects which it embraces, a coalition of a majority of the whole society could seldom take place on any other principles than those of justice and the general good; whilst there being thus less danger to a minor from the will of a major party, there must be less pretext, also, to provide for the security of the former, by introducing into the government a will not dependent on the latter, or, in other words, a will independent of the society itself. It is no less certain than it is important, notwithstanding the contrary opinions which have been entertained, that the larger the society, provided it lie within a practical sphere, the more duly capable it will be of self-government. And happily for the republican cause, the practicable sphere may be carried to a very great extent, by a judicious modification and mixture of the federal principle. (11)
PUBLIUS

READING GUIDE FOR FEDERALIST #51

1. What is essential to the “preservation of liberty?” How should this “be so constituted?”






2. Explain the following: “A dependence upon the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”






3. In a republican government, which branch is the strongest? Identify three ways of “remedying this inconveniency.”











4. List two ways in which the federal system of the US “places that system in a very interesting point of view,” i.e. protects against tyranny.






*** Make sure that you know the role of the following “auxiliary precautions” in guarding against tyranny:

• Separation of powers
• Checks and balances
• Federalism

So Happy Its Monday

Hi Class,

Just a reminder to read Sabato to page 23 by tomorrow. The quiz you can find at:
http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/sabato1.3.doc

Sss you tomorrow!

Mr. Barclay

Sabato Quiz on Monday!!!

I'll make this short and sweet. On Monday you will be quizzed on Sabato. You should read to page 13 in the textbook. This reading has been posted over the last couple of days on the whiteboard. Your quiz for Monday can be found here: http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/sabatochapter1.2.doc

Have a great weekend. I'm looking forward to the Monterey Jazz Festival. I have tickets for the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, a national high school Jazz honor band directed by my friend, Mr. Paul Contos. See you on Monday!!!

Sabato Quiz and Unit One Tomorrow

Hello Class,

Hopefully the Unit 2 test wasn't too painful. We will be starting Unit 1 tomorrow. In preparation for this, please begin reading Sabato Chapter 1 pages 3-11. The quiz is posted in the workspace at: http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/sabato1.doc See you tomorrow!

So Happy It's Thursday...(Again)

Class,

So, tomorrow we will have a review for our unit two test. This review will cover the multiple choice questions on the test. On Monday we will have a FRQ/finish up assignment day in preparation for Tuesday's test. By the way, the next FRQ related to campaign finance can be found here: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/repository/govpol_us_00.pdf

If you search around you will also find the answer key and a "model" student responses. These resources may be useful if you find yourself "stuck."

A couple of possible blog topics include your responses related to the situation at Hartnell: How would you respond to "Pancho Villa's" statements about (1) high numbers of Latinos who attend Hartnell College (2) that Mexican-Americans salute both flags (US and Mexican) and that Arizona's anti-immigrant laws should be adopted in Salinas...

If you want something else to write about, how about the situation regarding the Protestant pastor with plans to burn the Koran on September 11th? Does he have the right to do this? Should he do this? What should the US government (if anything)do to "persuade" this gentleman to cease and desist on his idea. Do you think American lives are potentially at stake over this matter?

See you tomorrow!

MTB

Wednesday Again...

Hi Class,

Tomorrow we will be talking about Campaign Finance Reform as our final lecture for Unit 2. You should be working your way toward completing Chapter 13 in Sabato. The last page of the chapter can be found on page 505. Just a tiny bit left to go...

On Friday, we will be taking the vocabulary test for Unit 2. Following that multiple choice quiz, we will prepare for our unit test which will be given to you on Monday or Tuesday of next week. I have to decide. I think the results might be better if we take the test on Tuesday. We could dedicate Monday to FRQ review....

Anyway, see you tomorrow!

Tuesday's Post

So, tomorrow we will have a Sabato quiz and I will talk to you about the Electoral College. I also will give you an FRQ for homework. This one will be on the incumbency advantage (what are some of the advantage that the incumbant enjoys) in the House and Senate. You may want to refer back to your notes to get a head start. See you tomorrow!

Sabato Quiz for Wednesday

Hi Class,

Hope you are having a great three-day weekend. Today, we are off to the Boardwalk for what I am sure will be huge crowds and long lines...For Wednesday I have posted the next Sabato quiz to be found: http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/sabatochapter13.4.doc

You will need to have read up to page 497 to be covered. Don't forget to continue working on the lecture note questions as well as study the vocabulary.

See you tomorrow!

Mr. Barclay