Update, heading into the exam

1. The exam format will include multiple choice and short answer questions. The short answer questions are often drawn directly from the reading questions (emailed, or under "Course documents" on BB6.

2. Question 9 is "back in" -- to the extent we covered it in class on Wednesday.
and to the extent the last part of it is answered in Chapter 2 in the text.

3. We are giving relatively short shrift to the substance of chapter 4, Civil Liberties (and none this secton to Civil Rights, chapter five). So, how to study this material? Let me suggest two approaches.

First, all civil liberties and civil rights issues involve federalism. So in chapter four and n chapter five, notice how the national government became involved in issued of liberties and rights only in the 20th century. (To answer 'Why not before?' it would be helpful to know the three main time periods of federalism discussed in chapter 3)

Thus, see nationalization of the bill of rights (pp113-14) as an issue of federalism.

Second, our discussion of Federalism, Civil Liberties (and in the future, Civil Rights) all demonstrate how interpretation of the Constitution is political -- it will affect who wins and who loses. I made that point Friday 2.3 in class, and I will make it again on Monday and Wednesday.

Questions 14-18 (dropping 19) serve as additional guides, reinforcing this post, and also sheeding some light on what I care about substantively in chapter 4.

Update: Remove Civil Rights from this Exam: no chapter 5.