Sup Seniors?
• Please go get a
textbook from the
bookshelf.
• Some people may
need to share but
that’s OK.
• Read 352-365
Current Even Reporters Project
This week – Historical Background. Please bring a news article either from the
archives – the past or that overviews the history of your issue. If you need me
to print your articles – you must have them emailed to me by Wednesday
afternoon. Carson.rosenberg@mvla.net
Current Event Topics:
• U.S. Economic Recovery
• European Union - Economic Recovery
• National Security Agency Spying Program
• Guns and Violence in the U.S.
• Instability & Democracy in the Middle East
• U.S. Health Care System
• U.S. Education System
• The Environment – Energy and Agriculture
• Social Reform Movements – Gay Rights/Abortion/Birth Control
• U.S. Immigration Policy
• China and Japan
• *Your Suggestion*
Civic Participation Project
No matter who you are you have the agency to
change the world.
You just need to start somewhere.
Mapping the Constitution
Read the WHOLE Constitution 352-365
– stopping at the amendments. Then, with your
group – Map out the structure of our government.
– Include – Powers of each branch
– Include – Key roles in each branch
On the bottom write:
1. Two things that surprised you.
2. One thing you want to change.
Happy Tuesday Friends!
Please get out:
– Something to take
notes with/on.
Don’t forget
– Constitution Quiz –
Block Day.
Be prepared to ask any
questions regarding
your Civic Participation
Project.
Historical Background
• Rousseau
– Social Contract ( People can develop into moral beings)
• Thomas Hobbes
– Social Contract (People are Evil, need to be controlled)
• John Locke
– Two Treatises of Government.
– Consent of the governed
– to serve them by protecting their rights: Life, liberty and property.
• Montesquieu
– Separation of Powers
– Three Branches
– Federalism
• Six Iroquois Nations
– Confederacy
Constitution Overview
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General Construction of our Government
Ratified in 1789
Supported by the Federalists
Opposed by the Anti-Federalists
Disagreements between large states and small
states
• Disagreements between South and North
Compromises
• 3/5ths Compromise
– Population
– Census
– Not for tax purposes
• The Great Compromise
– Bicameral Legislature
• Bill of Rights
Purpose of 7 Articles
• First Three Articles outline the three branches
– Roles
– Responsibilities
– Manner of election or appointment
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Article I – Legislative
Article II – Executive
Article III – Judicial
Article IV – Full Faith and Credit
– Regulate relationship between states
• Article V –Manner of amending the Constitution
• Article VI – Supremacy Clause
– Debts of the A.O.C.
• Article VII – Ratification
Legislative
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Write Laws
Levy Taxes
Declare War
Check the Power of the Executive
– Approve appointments to the Executive
– Approve Judicial appointment
• Bicameral
– House of Representatives ( 435 members)
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Number decided by population
Must be 25 years old, 7 years citizen, resident of your state.
Serve 2 year terms ( No Maximum)
Propose tax law, start the impeachment proceedings
– Senate (100 members)
• 17th amendment provides for direct election of senators – originally appointed
by state legislature
• 2 members per state.
• 30 years old, 9 years citizen, state resident
• Serve 6 year terms. ( No maximum)
• Decide Impeachment Proceedings
Executive
• President is elected for a four year term with the V.P.
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Must be 35
Must be a naturally born citizen
Must be a resident for 14 years
Not direct election or popular vote – Electoral College.
• Enforce Laws
– Propose new laws
– Veto, pocket veto, or fail to enforce laws.
• Make Treaties
• Lead the Military – President as Commander and Chief
• Make Judicial, Legislative (temporary) and Executive
appointments.
• Cabinet members are appointed
• Removal from office by Impeachment
Judicial
• Federal Judges are appointed.
• They hold their positions for life.
• Jurisdiction is based on type of crime and/or
location of crime.
• The Judicial Branch hast he power to
– Try Crimes
– Settle disputes between states
– Oversee Impeachment Trials
– Check the Legislative Branch – Judicial Review
• Review the Constitutionality of Laws
– Judicial Review – Marbury vs. Madison
» Strict vs. Loose Construction
Happy Block Day Seniors!
Today:
1. C.E.R.P.
2. Review Gov’t
Structure ‘nuts n
bolts’.
3. Balance of Power
purpose of gov’t.
Current Event Reporters Project
• Expert Group Meetings – discuss the article(s)
you found and what you will present in your
mixed groups meetings. Verify any questions you
have with me. Type up response to questions
from the back of the assignment sheet. (30 min)
• Mixed Group Meetings - Present your articles and
answer any questions. Come up with one
question for each person to go back and research
for next week.
• High-Lights – Each Group Shares One Major Event
Happy Friday Seniors!
Today:
1. Finish up notes
2. Look at Bill of Rights
vs. Human Declaration
of Rights.
3. Purpose of Gov’t
EQ: What role should
government play in our
lives?
Current Event Project Updates
Each person in your group needs to find an article.
They can all be on the same topic or different
topics.
Your presentation should be a synthesis of all three
articles. Updating us on different aspects of your
current event topic.
This week was a trial run so don’t worry about
getting marked down. Next week we’ll start for real.
Amendment Process
Bill of Rights
• First 10 Amendments
– Protect the rights of individuals
– Protect the rights of the states
• Compromise insisted upon by the Anti-Federalists
Which of these seem the most important?
Which seems the least important?
Happy Block Day Seniors!
Today:
1. Constitution Test Prep
2. Constitution Test
3. Current Event Meetings
4. Bill of Rights vs. Human
Rights
EQ: How do we balance the
needs of the majority with the
protection of the individual?
Constitution Exam
5 min to prep – review study guide
Write your answers directly on the exam – or on
another piece of paper, its up to you. Make sure
I understand completely what you are thinking
in the written portion – I am not a mind reader.
Don’t just say – this part is Montesquieu – WHY?
Current Event Project Updates
Each person in your group needs to find an article.
They can all be on the same topic or different topics.
Your presentation should be a synthesis of all three
articles. Updating us on different aspects of your
current event topic.
Make sure in your write-up you’ve answered the
questions you mixed groupings proposed and the
questions from the back of the sheet- elaborate- what
do you know now that different from last week.
Get more specific in your answers- what issues are you
going to focus on and why are those issues important?
TGIF!!!
Today:
1. Current Event
Discussions
2. Share outs
3. Human Rights vs.
Individual Rights
Current Event Discussions
During sharing, you must talk for 4 minutes. Then
people can ask you questions.
When someone is presenting, please listen and
don’t talk. When its time to ask questions and
discuss you will be able to do so.
Make sure you brainstorm a question for each
person to go back and research for next week.
Prepare to share out at least one major event that
you think the class should hear/discuss.
Declaration of Human Rights vs.
U.S. Bill of Rights
• GO online and look up the U.N. Declaration of
Human Rights.
• Compare it to the Bill of Rights, what is the same
what is different?
• What values are different?
• Why are the values different?
• What aspects of the Declaration of Human Rights
might you adopt into the Bill of Rights? Why?
• What aspects of the Do HR do you think we should
not adopt as a nation? Why?