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AP Government and Politics
Introduction and Summer Work Welcome to AP United States Government and Politics (APGP). The first order of business is to contact us via
email at [email protected] and [email protected] , please give your full name, how you would like to be
addressed, what your goal is for the class, and how YOU feel about the US Government today.
Your first task: Understand our central government, the Executive branch, Legislative branch, Supreme Court, and the
Cabinet. Explain what it takes to become a president, a senator, a representative, a judge, and a member of the cabinet.
Briefly describe what the required responsibilities of each is, and name your US representative and US senators that
represent you in the US Congress. Put this in MLA format with a work cited page (what were your sources?)
Your second task: The court cases listed below will be placed in a notebook for referencing during the school
year. For each case, you will type your findings into the Supreme Court Case Analysis Sheet, which is on next
page, PLEASE, do not just cut and paste, you can use various sources for each case; a couple of examples are
oyez.org, law.cornell.edu, streetlaw.org/en/home, and USCourts.gov. DO NOT use Wikipedia as it can be
altered. These cases will be posted to Quizlit.
If you have any questions, e-mail one of us at [email protected] and [email protected] and good luck. We
are looking forward to seeing you in class.
1. Constitutional Foundations &
Underpinnings:
a. Marbury v. Madison (1803)
b. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
c. Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
d. United States v. Lopez (1995)
2. Civil Liberties:
a. Gitlow v. New York (1925)
b. Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
c. Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
d. Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
e. Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
f. Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
g. Schenck v. United States (1919)
h. Texas v. Johnson (1989)
i. Furman v. Georgia (1972)
j. Griswald v. Connecticut (1965)
k. Roe v. Wade (1973)
l. Cruzan v. Dir. Missouri Dept. of
Health (1990)
m. Korematsu v. US (1944)
n. Engle v. Vitale (
3. Civil Rights:
a. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
b. UC Board of Regents v. Bakke
(1978)
c. Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
d. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
e. Wesberry v. Sanders (1965)
f. Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S.
(1964)
4. Elections and campaign finance:
a. Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
b. McConnell v. FEC (2003)
c. Bush v. Gore (2000)
d. Citizens United v. FEC (2009)
5. Presidency:
a. U.S. v. Nixon (1974)