Document 1(different documents)
1. What is the President’s Cabinet?
2. What is the Fed and what does it do?
3. What is the executive office of the president? Who established it and what does it consist of today?
4. What is mandatory spending in relation to the Federal Budget?
5. What is discretionary spending in relation to the Federal Budget?
6. What is a designated survivor in relation to the Presidential Succession plan?
7. What are Independent agencies?
8. Explain the two different approaches or philosophies behind foreign policy: Realism and Liberalism.
9. Explain the following terms:
fiscal deficit
federal debt
debt ceiling
10. Define what is meant by hard power and soft power and discuss the pros and cons of each.
Document 2
1. Why was Brown v. Board of Education (1954) such a landmark case?
2. What kind of cases are usually heard by the Supreme Court?
3. What is the difference between a civil liberty and a civil right?
4. What is strict scrutiny? Explain when it is used and give some examples of when it was used in the past.
5. What does the term jurisdiction refer to? Give examples in your response.
6. What constitutes the Inferior Courts?
7. How does one automtaically become an citizen of the United States today? Was this always the case? Discuss the history of American citizenship in terms of African Americans, Native Americans and ethnic minorities born in the USA.
8. Choose from one of the following rights from the first amendment and explain how it is interpreted and applied today.
- Freedom of Religion.
- Freedom of Speech.
- Freedom of the Press.
- Freedom to Assemble Peaceably.
- Freedom to Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances.
9. Choose from one of the following constitutional rights taken from the Bill of Rights and explain one of them in detail. Mention how the amendment is interpreted today and what issues remain unresolved if any.
Due Process of Law
Freedom and Security of the Person
Rights of the Accused
Punishment
10. Briefly describe the hierarchy of the US court system.
Document 3
1. Why was the American revolution a landmark event for democracy?
2. Who are the Kurdish people and why do they not have their own state?
3. What was the significance of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648?
4. What is democracy?
5. What is Capitalism?
6. Outline the basic tenets of Socialism and Communism and differentiate between them.
7. In the three case studies in Module 6 and from other prior knowledge you may have, what is a common issue in the development of independent states?
8. In terms of nationhood, what was the problem with India’s Independence? What was the solution? What have been some of the results or effects of that solution?
9. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the Global Economy.
10.
Define the following terms:
Nation
State
Sovereignty
Document 4
1. Where do local governments get the money they need from?
2. What services are local governments responsible for?
3. What role and responsibilities does a state governor have? (Response must name and explain at least 4)
4. What is the orignin of our Miranda rights?
“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any questioning.”
5. What is the difference between a criminal court and a civil court?
6. What do individual State Legislatures have to do with the US Constitution?
7. What are the two main ways someone become the mayor of a city? Link each method to a system of city government.
8. What are the three levels of state courts?
9. Briefly describe the three systems of county government.
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