Advanced Placement United States Government and Politics
Franklin High School
Mr. Lesh

The following websites will be useful for you throughout the Advanced Placement Government and Politics course. Enjoy and e-mail me (blesh@bcps.org) if there are problems or to communicate which sites are the most useful. Also, be sure to make use of my webpage for practice questions, test review guides, chapter note guides, and other useful tools, available at: Mr. Lesh's Web Page.

Textbook Link

Your textbook will be your best friend during the course. The text link contains practice tests that will be a great review tool for unit tests.

Houghton Mifflin: American Government

Current Political Events

The best link for coverage of domestic politics.

The Washington Post: Politics


Supreme Court Case Presentations

Each of you will be presenting one Supreme Court case during the course of the year. It will be important for you to provide accurate information on these cases since they are traditionally well represented on the Advanced Placement Government and Politics exam. The following websites will be very useful in completing your research.

Cornell University Law School

Find Law Research Portal

Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Oyez Project

Created 10/3/2007