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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month during the 1975 term is there a special Saturday session to consider the death penalty cert petitions?

2. Keyes v. School District No. 1 is from what state?

3. Who writes the majority opinion in San Antonio v. Rodriguez?

4. What justice does the ACLU go to when they do not like the ruling of the first justice?

5. The lunch that White, Stewart, and some clerks attend in the 1973 term, where they discuss the problems they are having with Burger, becomes known as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Brennan see the decision in Warth v. Seldin as doing?

2. What does Brennan not like about Burger's tactics during the 1975 term?

3. When Burger circulates his decision on the Milliken case in April, what does Powell find?

4. Why is White critical of Stevens?

5. What do the Justices have to do after the Douglas resignation?

6. What is Blackmun's formula on abortion that wins the support of the chief justice?

7. What happens to Douglas when he arrives in Nassau with his wife, Cathy?

8. Who is John Doar and what is his job?

9. What does the Fourth Amendment require?

10. What does the first reverse-discrimination case the court hears concern?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the seven steps that each case which comes before the court must go through? Give examples of each step and the role each step play in the next steps. Use the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How does the rules that the Supreme Court functions under affect its ability to enforce its rulings? Cite examples from the book to support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How do politics affect the decisions of the Supreme Court? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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