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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. Who travels to Douglas before the start of the 1975 term to try and get him to resign?

2. What is the first reverse discrimination case the Court hears?

3. What is the name of the 1972 case in which the court has to decide if resident aliens can become members of the bar?

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

5. Burger circulates his latest version of the executive privilege section of the Watergate draft on what day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Fourth Amendment require?

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

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

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

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

6. What does the Saxbe decision allow?

7. How does Powell do his research on abortion?

8. What does Brennan talk about at the opening cocktail party for the clerks before the 1974 term?

9. What state would not allow aliens to join the bar?

10. What does Burger do when he finds out the abortion opinion has been leaked to the press before its release date?

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 background of each justice, before they are appointed to the bench, help or hinder their ability to function as an effective justice? Support your answer with evidence from the book.

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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