PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT
Assignments:
#1 Course Guidelines and Requirements.
Read, fill in your goal for the class, sign and return
Answer in Writing : Identify one social, one political, one economic
problem that a Government should be responsible for managing...For each
category explain why it is a Government that is best suited to manage the
problems you have chosen. No more than one paragraph for each problem.
3/24 # 2 Read Article III of the Constitution and answer the
following questions. Upload your written answers in doc form for credit
(5points)
1. What is the subject of Article III?
2. What body holds the judicial power of the United States?
3. What branch of government has the power to create
“inferior Courts”? Why are they “inferior”?
4. Who appoints and confirms federal judges?
5. How long do federal judges hold office?
6. List five types of cases federal courts may try, according
to the Constitution.
7. What is Original Jurisdiction? What is Appellate Jurisdiction?
(You may have to look this one up elsewhere)
8. Over what two types of cases does the Supreme Court have
original jurisdiction?
3/26 #3
Read:
Landmark Court Cases
Upload your answers
in doc to Google Classroom for credit (5points)
Match the Court Case
with the Issue. What was the decision that the Court eventually made? How did
it change the Law and American Society?
1. Do racially
segregated public schools violate the Equal Protection Clause?
2. Is certain speech,
including sending antiwar pamphlets to drafted men, made in wartime and deemed
in violation of the Espionage Act, protected by the First Amendment?
3. Can states pass
laws that challenge the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce?
4.Who can ultimately
decide what the law is?
5. Are police constitutionally
required to inform people in custody of their rights to remain silent and to an
attorney?
6. Can an institution
of higher learning use race as a factor when making admissions decisions?
7. Does the
Constitution prohibit laws that severely restrict or deny a woman's access to
abortion?
8. In this pre-Civil
War case, the question was whether Congress had the constitutional power to
prohibit slavery in free territories. A second question was whether the
Constitution gave African Americans the right to sue in federal court.
9. Can Congress
establish a national bank, and if so, can a state tax this bank?
10.Does the First
Amendment prohibit public school officials from barring students' from wearing
black armbands to symbolize anti-war political protest?
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1/30 #2 Origins of the State and Government I
Read and Annotate: Aristotle Politics (excerpt)
Please bring the reading to class as well.
Answer:
1. How does Aristotle
define the State?
2. According to
Aristotle what is a citizen?
3. List and describe
the three forms of government and their perversions.
4. What does he propose
are the primary concerns/responsibilities of a government?
2/3 #3
Characteristics of Democracy and Economy The 7 Characteristics of
Democracy and Economic Systems
1. What are the Seven
Characteristics of Democracy laid out in the
link above?
2. If you could only
choose four to exist in Democracy...which four would they be. Briefly explain
why for each one.
3. Define: Capitalism,
Socialism, and Communism. Which of those do you believe to be most compatible
for the function of Democracy. Explain your
answer.
#4 Does
Citizenship need to be redefined? Read, Print, Answer Questions
below, Bring to Class Paradise Lost in America's
Post National World
Answer:
1. To whom should a
Citizen give loyalty?
2. Does the concept
of Citizenship really matter?
3.What if anything do you think should replace national identity as a unifying
principal for governing?
1. Is this
Resolution an appropriate Revolution for the
21st Century? Is it antithetical to democratic
principles?
Read DIA pgs 53-58
1. What did the
Virginia Plan propose?
2. Why did smaller
States oppose the Virginia Plan? What principles did
their counter-proposal detail?
3. Explain the
Connecticut Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise.
4. What is the
difference between a Federalist and an Anti-Federalist? What did the
Anti-Federalists demand be done in order to ensure their support for the new
Constitution?