The Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast: Pass the Bar Exam with Less Stress

044: Tackling a California Bar Exam Essay: Constitutional Law

May 6, 2019 · 22 min · Season 1 · Episode 44 · 26.6 MB
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Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today we are walking through a California bar exam question on constitutional law. This is part of our series of podcasts talking about how to approach questions on the California bar exam.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • A quick review of the First Amendment and its application to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment
  • Issues related to the freedom of religion
  • The Establishment Clause, the Free Exercise Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause
  • How to do proper analysis on California bar exam essay questions
  • How to assess what is legally significant about each fact in the question's fact pattern
  • How to create a roadmap and organize your essay's structure

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Alison & Lee