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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. When is the first day of the court's term each year?

2. Which amendment says that no one should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process?

3. If there were to be an impeachment trial of President Nixon, who would preside?

4. 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?

5. Who will succeed Nixon as President?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In the 1973 term, how does the court deal with obscenity?

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

4. What does the Fourth Amendment require?

5. Why does Burger go to New York to visit Douglas on July 24th, before the start of the 1975 term?

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

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

8. What does Chief Justice Burger do at his annual reunions with his law clerks?

9. Why is Douglas' situation uneasy for all of the other justices?

10. How does Powell do his research on abortion?

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

What caused conflict between the chief justice and the other justices and how did this affect the court? Cite examples from the book to support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What drove the behavior of Chief Justice Burger while he was on the court? Cite examples from the book to support your reasoning.

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