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Students will create a newspaper using political and constitutional stories. In the newspaper there will be editors, writers and op-ed writers
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Social Studies — US Government
Grade Level
Grades 9-12
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State-specific
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Citizens have the right to represent their locality, state, or country as elected officials. Candidates develop a campaign, when they decide to seek public office.
analyze the disparities between civic values expressed in the United States Constitution and the United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the realities as evidenced in the political, social, and economic life in the United States and throughout the world
rights and responsibilities related to medical treatment or public assistance for minorities.
Students should also understand the barriers and burdens of campaigning, including money, time, and loss of privacy.
Political democratization: national political nominating convention, secret ballot
Students will investigate the ways individuals, groups, and government institutions limited the rights of African Americans, including the use of Black Codes, the passage of Jim Crow laws, the Ku Klux Klan, restrictions on voting rights, and Supreme Court cases including the Civil Rights Cases (1883) and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
Students will examine the rights and protections provided by the Bill of Rights and to whom they initially applied.
Limited government is achieved through the separation of powers between three different branches. The system of checks and balances is part of this limited government structure at all levels of government.
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