GVPT 170 Study Guide - Final Guide: Equal Protection Clause, Gross Domestic Product, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Government and Politics
• Course: GVPT 170
• Professor: All

Document Summary

2hints from prof miller: know last names of supreme court judges (link to quizlet for. Supreme court rulings are at bottom of doc), difference between medicare and. Medicaid, difference between civil liberties and civil rights, number of seats in house & Senate (hinted that she is a congress scholar so focus on that), notes on 4/11 (exec. Seats allocated by c wpopulation (# changes every 10 years w total of. Def: allocation of house seats to the states after each census. Ex) massachusetts went from 14 seats (1950) to 9 (2010) Ex) arizona went from 2 seats (1950) to 9 (2010) Def: drawing new boundaries of congressional districts. Responsibility of state legislatures in most states, but increasingly calls to reform the process to make it less partisan by using bipartisan commissions. Def: drawing boundaries of congressional districts in order to advantage some partisan or political interest. Partisan gerrymandering (partisan gerrymandering explained chart here)