Warm Up What is the Constitution? What is the Declaration of Independence?

Warm UpWhat is the Constitution?What is the Declaration of

Independence?

The ConstitutionUS GovernmentMullin

TopicsArticlesFormal

AmendmentInformal

ProceduresBill of

Rights

articlesRegarding the

Constitution, the articles are the seven numbered sections into which it is divided.

Article ILegislative branch

◦ CONGRESSS◦ 2 Houses

House of Representatives

Senate CREATE LAWS

Article II Executive branch THE PRESIDENT SIGNS BILLS INTO

LAWS Cabinent

Article III Judicial branch-Supreme Court Interpreting the law---is the law

constitutional or not?

Article IVRelations among the States-outlines that there is national law and state law. State laws can be UNIQUE. But all states must follow NATIONAL law.

Article VAmending the Constitution-how to add

or take away laws.

Article VI

National debts, supremacy of national law, and oaths of office

Article VIIRatifying the

Constitution

Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=yYEfLm5dLMQ

ActivityComplete the Student Rights

Graphic OrganizerComplete the Constitution comic

strip.◦You will need to RESEARCH the

answers.

Due EOC.

Warm UpWhat does “separation of

powers” mean?What does “checks and

balances” mean?

Six Basic Principles of the Constitution

Popular sovereigntyLimited governmentSeparation of powersChecks and balancesJudicial reviewFederalism

Veto Meaning -- to rejectThe Congress

(legislative branch) can make laws, but the President may veto any act of Congress. Congress, in turn, can override a presidential veto by a two-thirds vote in each house.

Judicial ReviewPower of the courts to

determine whether the actions of government are in accordance with the Constitution.

Specifically, it is the power of a court to determine the constitutionality of a governmental action.

Unconstitutional To declare and

action illegal, null, and void, of no force and effect –

a governmental action found to violate some provision in the Constitution.

Amendment Change the written words of the

Constitution. (Article V)

Constitution SimulationComplete Part 1

Warm UpWhat is an Amendment?What is the Executive Branch?What is the Legislative Branch?What is the Judicial Branch?

Formal AmendmentMethod to

change or add to the written language of the Constitution. The changes or additions become part of the Constitution.

First MethodAn amendment proposed by two-

thirds vote in each house of Congress and then ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures. (Twenty-six of the 27 amendments were adopted in this manner.)

Second MethodAn amendment proposed by

Congress and then ratified by specially-called conventions in three-fourths of the States. Only the 21st Amendment was adopted in the way (1933).

Third MethodAn amendment proposed by a

national convention, called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of the State legislatures (34 of the 50 today).

Bill of Rights

First ten amendments to the Constitution. (1791)

These amendments set out guarantees of freedom of belief and expression, of freedom and security of the person, and of fair and equal treatment before the law.

Complete OutlineResearch and fill in the blanks for

the “Road to Change: From the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution”.

Due as HW.

Warm UpDefine political ideology.Provide an example and define it.

Warm UpWhat does it mean to be liberal?What does it mean to be

conservative?

Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=06A1PSCS9XY

ActivityComplete surveys and ideological

statementsFor the surveys, you need to

complete two.◦http://www.pbs.org/newshour/spc/vote

2012/quiz/

◦http://www.people-press.org/quiz/political-typology/

Complete political ideology graphic organizer-define terms. DUE EOC.