The list below includes Supreme Court opinions, journal articles, and educational web pages. You must summarize two of these in your own words, keeping quotations to a minimum. Rather than providing your opinion in your summaries, focus on recounting the main ideas in each as clearly and specifically as you can.
You will be graded according to your ability to convey accurate information in college-level prose. Consequently, you must proofread your work carefully to make sure that it is free of factual and grammatical errors. If you have writing problems, you are strongly advised to review your summaries with a tutor at the Writing Center before you send it in. Even if you have no trouble in this area, it is always a good idea to have a tutor help you proofread and correct your work.
Each of your summaries must be at least two pages long. Email your work as a single attachment formatted for Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx extension) to susan_gallagher@uml.edu. Be sure to include your last name in your document title (e.g., "Smith.doc") and your full name in your exam. You must also include "AP midterm" in the subject heading of your e-mail.
Due date: Anytime before noon on Sunday, March 23.
Cecelia M. Kenyon, "Men of Little Faith: The Anti-Federalists on the Nature of Representative Government," William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan., 1955).
Donald A. Ritchie, "Why Was the Constitution Necessary?," The Constitution, annenbergclassroom.org.
David J. Bodenhamer, "The Right to Equal Protection of the Laws," Our Rights, annenbergclassroom.org.
Donald Meiklejohn, "Civil Liberties in the American Community," Ethics, Vol. 51, No. 1 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, October 1940).
David J. Bodenhamer, "The Right to Freedom of Speech," Chapter 6, Our Rights, annenbergclassroom.org.
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857).
Bradwell v. Illinois (1872).
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
Kermit L. Hall and John J. Patrick, "Separate but Not Equal: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)," The Pursuit of Justice, annenbergclassroom.org.
Susan E. Gallagher, "Gender," Encyclopedia of Privacy (Greenwood Press, 2007).
Progressive Movement, 1900-1918, overview, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University.
Kermit L. Hall and John J. Patrick, "The Rights of Labor and the Rights of Women: Lochner v. New York (1905) & Muller v. Oregon (1908)," The Pursuit of Justice, annenbergclassroom.org.
Douglas O. Linder, The Scopes Trial (1925).
David J. Brodenhamer, "The Right of Privacy," Our Rights, annenbergclassroom.org.
Olmstead v. United States (1928).
Kermit L. Hall and John J. Patrick, "Affirming the New Deal: West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)," The Pursuit of Justice, annenbergclassroom.org.
Jack M. Balkin,"Brown v. Board of Education: A Critical Introduction," Brown v. Board of Education, Yale University.
LBJ's Great Society: Waging War on Poverty & Promoting Civil Rights, Miller Center, University of Virginia.
Kermit L. Hall and John J. Patrick, "Abortion, Privacy, and Values in Conflict: Roe v. Wade," The Pursuit of Justice, annenbergclassroom.org.
Susan E. Gallagher, "A Man's Home: Rethinking the Public/Private Dichotomy in American Political Thought," Teaching Resource, UMass Lowell.
Roe v. Wade (1973).
Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986).
Howard Zinn, "Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bi-Partisan Consensus," History is a Weapon: A People's History of the United States.