Unit 3 Introduction

Civic Participation and Public Policy

How do citizens influence government policy?

10.6 Influencing Public Opinion: The Mass Media

10.7 Understanding Interest Groups

Topic 11

Elections

11.1 Political Parties and What They Do

11.2 Nominations

11.3 Electing the President

11.4 Money and Elections

Topic 12

Government and the Economy

12.3 Financing Government

12.4 Spending and Borrowing

Topic 13

State and Local Government

13.1 State Constitutions

13.2 State Legislatures

13.3 The Governor and State Administration

13.4 The State Courts

13.5 Local Governments – Structure and Function

13.6 State and Local Spending and Revenue

Supreme Court Case Studies

(Selections alphabetically listed)

Brown v. Bd. of Ed. of Topeka, KS, 1954

Bush v. Gore (2000)

Citizens United v. F.E.C.2009

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857

Escobedo v. Illinois, 1964

Gideon v.Wainwright, 1963

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 2004

Korematsu v. United States, 1944

Mapp v. Ohio, 1961

Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Miranda v. Arizona, 1966

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819

Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

Roe v.Wade, 1973

Rostker v. Goldberg, 1981

Schenck v. United States, 1919

Terry v. Ohio, 1968

U.S. v. Nixon (1972

Worcester v. Georgia, 1832