Individual
Rights and The
Common Good
Learning Target
• I can explain the balance
between Individual Rights and
Common Good.
Balance
• It is the job of our government and
society to find a balance between
individual rights and the common
good.
Individual Rights
• Powers and privileges to
which one has a just claim.
– Life
– Liberty
– Property
Common Good
• Something for the benefit
for all members of a given
community.
Balance
You can’t have
everything all of the
time.
Balance
• Sometimes Individual Rights are
exchanged for the protections provided
by society or government (Common
Good).
Driving
In Schools
Japanese-American
Internment
What’s your
position?
Essential Question:
Was President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066,
which resulted in the Internment of over
120,000 Japanese Americans, constitutional
or unconstitutional?
I can express my
position on
Executive Order
9066.
I can take a position on
Executive Order 9066
that considers the both
Individual Rights and
the Common Good AND
includes a call to action.
1.Answers the essential
question
2.Connects to the balance of
Individual Rights and
Common Good
3.Provides a call to action
1. Answers the essential
question
President Roosevelt’s Executive
Order 9066 was constitutional.
1. Answers the essential
question
President Roosevelt’s
Executive Order 9066 was
unconstitutional.
2. Connects to the balance of
Individual Rights and Common
Good (include citation)
Even though some American citizens’
individual rights were violated President
Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 was
constitutional because it promoted the
constitutional principle of “life”
(Amendment 5) for the common good.
2. Connects to the balance of
Individual Rights and Common
Good (include citation)
Although the U.S. Government was providing
for the common good President Roosevelt’s
Executive Order 9066 was unconstitutional
because it violated the Japanese-Americans’
individual right to “life” and “liberty”
(Amendment 5).
3.Provides a call to action
Therefore, our society
should always be willing
to exchange individual
rights in order to promote
the common good.
3.Provides a call to action
Therefore, our society should
not be preoccupied with
promoting the common good
to the extent of diminishing
individual rights.
Even though some American citizens’
individual rights were violated President
Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 was
constitutional because it promoted the
constitutional principle of “life”
(Amendment 5) for the common good.
Therefore, our society should always be
willing to exchange individual rights in
order to promote the common good.
Although the U.S. Government was
providing for the common good
President Roosevelt’s Executive Order
9066 was unconstitutional because it
violated the Japanese-Americans’
individual right to “life” and “liberty”
(Amendment 5). Therefore, our society
should not be preoccupied with
promoting the common good to the
extent of diminishing individual rights.