Guiding Question
This is the Guiding question. (verbatim)
Should every new generation have to uphold, amend, change or completely abolish the US government?
These are the characteristics of civilization (name 3 for credit)
What are controlling water, agriculture, cities, specialization, writing, laws, government. social structure, money?
(🏫 Classwork: The Rise of the State)
In the Declaration of Independence T. Jefferson said these were the "certain unalienable rights" everyone has.
What is Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
This is the amount of currency in circulation.
What is the Money Supply?
(🏫 Classwork: 💰 Money & the State Notes 📝)
This is where the tradition of Common Law came from.
Where is England?
(Homework 📖 Reading & Analysis 🔍 English Common Law 🍜🛠️ Notecard)
This is why Thomas Jefferson believed we should have the option to change our government every generation.
New generations should not be oppressed and burdened by governments and debts of previous generations.
This is a is a government in which one person has all the power.
What is autocracy?
(🏫 Classwork: Who Rules: Worksheets & Nearpod)
According to the Declaration of Independence when any government fails to protect our natural rights people have the right to.... (pts for paraphrase Daily Double for verbatim quote)
"it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness"
The central concept in economics; refers to the gap between limited resources and unlimited wants.
What is scarcity?
(🏫 Classwork: 🧮 Economics Basics💰 Notes 📝)
This is when individuals give up some freedoms in exchange for the protection and benefits of living within that society, essentially creating a set of rules and laws that govern everyone within it.
What is the Social Contract?
(The Justice System: Intro 🧑🏾⚖️)
This is the current public approval rate for the US Congress. (closest number win, exact number gets DAILY DOUBLE)
What is 17%
This is the English Document that ushered in an age of limited government and established Habeas Corpus as the basis of modern law.
What is the Magna Carta?
(🏫🗣️ Class Discussion: The Magna Carta)
This article outlines the process of amending the US Constitution.
What is Article 5?
(Classwork: DBQ: Founding Documents & Branches of Government)
This is the economic system that has collective ownership of key industries such as healthcare, energy production, water, etc… so profits are shared among citizens.
What is socialism?
(🏫 Classwork: 🧮 Economics Basics💰 Notes 📝)
This system, laws are primarily written down in legal codes and statutes.
What is Civil Law?
(🏫 Classwork: Civil Law vs Common Law Legal Systems: Reading 📖 & Questions)
This is the current size of the national debt. (closest # wins)
What is $35 trillion.
This is the primary goal of any constitution.
What is to limit the power of government?
(🏫 Classwork: Why Constitutions 📜? Group Discussion 💬 & INB)
This is the legal way you can steal elections in the US by drawing district lines so your party can not loose.
DAILY DOUBLE: This is Article in the US Constitution gives states the power to do this.
What is Gerrymandering?
(🏫 Classwork: Gerrymandering: A Legal Way to Steal and Election?)
What is Article 1 Section 4
This is when currency rapidly looses value becoming worthless.
What is hyperinflation?
(8th Unit 2 Money and the State 2024 notes)
This system of law relies on precedent and juries to reach decisions.
What is Common Law?
(🏫 Classwork: Civil Law vs Common Law Legal Systems: Reading 📖 & Questions)
This was the basis of the majority ruling in the Dobbs Case in 2022 in which the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
What is originalism?
ThE English philosopher believed all humans are blank slates and it was society that made people good of bad.
Who was John Locke?
( 🏫 Classwork Hobbes, Locke & Me Venn Diagram)
These are the reasons Athenian Democracy collapsed. (name 3 for credit)
What is...
- crippling economic downturn
- politicians committed financial misdemeanors
- sent its army to fight unpopular foreign wars
- struggled to cope with a surge in immigration
(🏡 Homework: Warnings From the Past - The Failure of Athenian Democracy and Fall of the Roman Republic)
This was Adam Smiths theory that free markets adjust themselves through competition meeting the needs of the market—and through self-interest, and government should keep their hands off the economy.
What is laissez-faire?
(Homework 📖 Reading & Analysis 🔍 What is Economics 🍜🛠️ Notecard)
This model does not effectively reduce recidivism, which refers to the tendency of previously incarcerated individuals to commit crimes again.
What is the Custodial Model?
(🏫 Classwork: 3 Different Models for Prisons Reading 📖 & Questions)