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Teacher: Scott Norgan
CONTENT
Building: High School
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Grade: 9 – 12
GLCE’s
W 1) Principles of Government
Government and the State ................................. C1.1.1, C1.1.2
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Forms of Government ...........................C1.2.1, C1.2.2, C1.2.3
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Basic Concepts of Democracy ..............C1.1.3, C1.2.2, C1.2.4
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Subject/Course: American Government
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Define government and the basic powers every government holds.
Describe the four defining characteristics of the state.
Identify four theories that attempt to explain the origin of the state.
Understand the purpose of government in the United States and other countries.
Classify governments according to three sets of characteristics. (Participation, Power
distribution, Relationship between legislature and executive.)
Understand the foundations of democracy.
Analyze the connections between democracy and the free enterprise system.
Identify the role of the Internet in a democracy.
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Text: Ch. 1
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Identify the three basic concepts of government that influenced government in the
English colonies.
Explain the significance of the following landmark English documents: the Magna
Carta, the Petition of Right, the English Bill of Rights.
Describe the three types of colonies that the English established in North America.
Compare the outcomes of the First and Second Continental Congresses.
Analyze the ideas in the Declaration of Independence.
Describe the structure of the government set up under the Articles of Confederation.
Compare and contrast the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan for a new constitution.
Summarize the major compromises that the delegates agreed to make.
Describe the delegates' reactions to the Constitution as they completed their work.
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Text: Ch. 2
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Outline the important elements of the Constitution.
List the six basic principles of the Constitution.
Describe four different ways to formally amend, or change the wording of, the
Constitution.
Explain the limits of the formal amendment process.
Understand the history of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, including the Bill of
Rights.
Identify how basic legislation has changed the Constitution over time.
Explain the powers of the executive branch and the courts to amend the Constitution.
Analyze the role of party practices and custom in shaping the Federal Government.
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Text: Ch. 3
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W 2) Origins of American Democracy
Our Political Beginnings ................................... C3.2.1, C2.1.1
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The Coming of Independence ........................................ C2.1.4
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The Critical Period ........................................................ C2.1.3
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Creating the Constitution ................................. C2.1.2, C2.1.3
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Ratifying the Constitution ............................................. C2.1.1
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3) The Constitution
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The Six Basic Principles ........................C2.1.1,C2.2.1, C3.4.1
Formal Amendment ............................... C2.2.2, C2.1.5, 3.2.5
Informal Amendment ........................................ C2.2.2, C2.1.5
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4) Federalism (Ch. 4)
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Federalism: The Division of Power ......C2.1.4, C3.3.1, C3.3.3
The Nat’l Govt. and the 50 States .........C2.1.4, C3.3.2, C3.3.6
Interstate Relations............................................ C3.3.1, C3.3.7
Local Government & Finance (Ch. 25)
Counties, Towns, and Townships .................................. C3.3.4
Cities and Metropolitan Areas ....................................... C3.3.4
Governing the States (Ch. 24)
State Constitutions ......................................................... C3.3.5
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Parties and What They Do ................................ C1.1.4, C3.5.6
The Two-Party System................................................... C3.5.1
Two-Party System in Am. History ................................. C3.5.2
The Minor Parties .......................................................... C3.5.2
Party Organization ......................................................... C3.5.3
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6) Voters and Voter Behavior
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The Right to Vote........................................................... C3.5.9
Voter Qualifications ....................................................... C3.5.9
Suffrage and Civil Rights ......................C2.2.3, C2.2.4, C3.4.3
Voter Behavior ............................................................... C3.5.8
Mass Media and Public Opinion
The Formation of Public Opinion ..................... C3.5.4, C3.5.5
The Mass Media ...................................C3.5.7, C3.5.8, C3.5.9
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Define federalism and explain why the Framers chose this system of government.
Identify powers delegated to and denied to the National Government, and powers
reserved for and denied to the States.
Understand that the National Government holds exclusive powers; it also holds
concurrent powers with the States.
Examine how the Constitution functions as "the supreme Law of the Land."
Explain the process for admitting new States to the Union.
Examine the many and growing areas of cooperative federalism.
Explain why States make interstate compacts.
Understand the purpose of the Full Faith and Credit Clause.
Define extradition and explain its purpose.
Discuss the purpose of the Privileges and Immunities Clause.
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Text: Ch. 4
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Define a political party.
Describe the major functions of political parties.
Identify the reasons why the United States has a two-party system.
Understand multiparty and one-party systems and how they affect the functioning of
government.
Describe party membership patterns in the United States.
Understand the origins of political parties in the United States.
Identify and describe the three major periods of single-party domination and describe
the current era of divided government.
Identify the types of minor parties that have been active in American politics.
Understand why minor parties are important even though they seldom elect national
candidates.
Understand why the major parties have a decentralized structure.
Describe the national party machinery and how parties are organized at the State and
local levels.
Identify the three components of the parties.
Examine the future of the major parties.
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Text: Ch. 5
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Summarize the history of voting rights in the United States.
Identify and explain constitutional restrictions on the States' power to set voting
qualifications.
Identify the universal requirements for voting in the United States.
Explain the other requirements that States have used or still use as voting qualifications.
Describe the 15th Amendment and the tactics used to circumvent it in an effort to deny
African Americans the vote.
Explain the significance of the early civil rights legislation passed in 1957, 1960, and
1964.
Analyze the provisions and effects of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Examine the problem of nonvoting in this country and describe the size of the problem.
Identify why people do not vote.
Examine voting behavior of voters and nonvoters.
Understand the sociological and psychological factors that affect voting and how they
work together to influence voter behavior.
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Text: Ch. 6
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7) Congress
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The National Legislature ................................................ C3.1.1
The House of Representatives ........................................ C3.1.1
The Senate ...................................................................... C3.1.1
The Members of Congress ............................................. C3.1.1
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W 8) Powers of Congress
Scope of Congressional Powers .............C3.1.1, C3.3.1,C3.3.2
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Expressed Powers ........................C3.1.5, C3.1.6,C3.1.7, 3.2.3
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Implied Powers .............................................................. C3.3.3
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Non-legislative Powers .................................................. C3.2.3
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Explain why the Constitution divides power between the two houses of Congress.
Describe a term of Congress.
Summarize how sessions of Congress have changed over time.
Describe the size and terms of the House of Representatives.
Explain how the House seats are reapportioned among the States after each census.
Analyze the formal and informal qualifications for serving in the House.
Compare the size of the Senate to the size of the House of Representatives.
Describe how States have elected senators in the past and present.
Explain how and why a senator's term differs from a representative's term.
Identify the qualifications for serving in the Senate.
Compare and contrast the duties of the job of serving in Congress.
Describe the compensation and privileges given to members of Congress.
Explain how the Necessary and Proper Clause gives Congress flexibility in lawmaking.
Describe Congress's role in amending the Constitution and in deciding elections.
Describe Congress's power to impeach, and summarize presidential impeachment cases.
Identify Congress's executive powers.
Describe Congress's investigatory power.
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Text: Ch. 10
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Identify the three types of congressional power.
Compare strict construction of the U.S. Constitution on the subject of congressional
power to liberal construction.
Summarize key points relating to Congress's power to tax.
Describe how Congress uses its power to borrow money.
Analyze the importance of Congress's commerce power.
Identify the reasons that the Framers gave Congress the power to issue currency.
Identify the key sources of Congress's foreign relations powers.
Describe the power-sharing arrangement between Congress and the President on the
issues of war and national defense.
List other key powers exercised by Congress.
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Text: Ch. 11
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Identify the President's many roles.
Understand the formal qualifications necessary to become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
Explain how the Constitution provides for presidential succession.
Understand the constitutional provisions for presidential disability.
Describe the role of the Vice President.
Explain the Framers' original provisions for choosing the President.
Describe the role of conventions in the presidential nominating process.
Evaluate the importance of presidential primaries.
Examine the characteristics that determine who is nominated as a presidential
candidate.
Understand the function of the electoral college today.
Describe the flaws in the electoral college.
Outline the advantages and disadvantages of proposed reforms in the electoral college.
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Text: Ch. 13
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9) The Presidency
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The President’s Job Description........................ C3.1.2, C4.2.1
Presidential Succession and the V.P. ............................. C3.1.2
Presidential Selection:
The Framer’s Plan ..................................................... C3.1.2
Presidential Nominations ............................................... C3.1.2
The Election ................................................................... C3.1.2
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10) The Federal Court System
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The National Judiciary ...................................... C3.1.3, C3.2.2
The Inferior Courts ....................................................... C3.4.5
The Supreme Court ........................................................ C3.2.2
The Special Courts ......................................................... C3.4.5
The Bureaucracy (Ch. 15-4)
Independent Agencies .................................................... C3.1.4
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Foreign Affairs and National Security .............. C4.1.1, C4.2.1
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Other Foreign and Defense Agencies ..C4.1.3, C4.2.2, C4.2.3
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American Foreign Policy Overview ................. C4.1.2, C4.2.4
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Foreign Aid and Defense Alliances ....C4.1.4, C4.2.5, C4.2.6
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The Unalienable Rights ........... C3.2.1, C3.2.3, C3.2.4, C3.4.4,
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Freedom of Religion ..................................................... C2.1.4
Freedom of Speech and Press ........................................ C5.3.1
Freedom of Assembly and petition ................................ C5.3.2
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Explain why the Constitution created a national judiciary, and describe its structure.
Outline the process for appointing federal judges.
List the terms of office for federal judges and explain how their salaries are determined.
Examine the roles of federal court officers.
Describe the structure and jurisdiction of the federal courts.
Define the concept of judicial review.
Outline the scope of the Supreme Court's jurisdiction.
Examine how cases reach the Supreme Court.
Summarize the way the Court operates.
Explain how a citizen may sue the government in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Examine the roles of the territorial courts and of the District of Columbia courts.
Contrast the functions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the U.S.
Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
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Text: Ch. 18
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Define foreign policy, and understand the difference between isolationism and
internationalism.
Explain the functions, components and organization of the Dept of State.
Describe the government agencies that are involved in foreign and defense policy.
American foreign policy from independence through WWI.
Show how the two world wars changed American foreign policy.
Identify the two types of foreign aid and describe U.S. foreign aid policy
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Text: Ch. 17
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Explain how Americans' commitment to freedom led to the creation of the Bill of
Rights.
Understand the concepts of limited government and the relativity of individual rights.
Examine why a free society cannot exist without free expression.
Describe the "wall of separation between church and state" set up by the Establishment
Clause of the First Amendment.
Summarize the Supreme Court rulings on religion and education as well as other
Establishment Clause cases.
Explain how the Supreme Court has interpreted and limited the Free Exercise Clause.
Explain the importance of the two-way free exchange of ideas.
Summarize how the Supreme Court has limited seditious speech and obscenity.
Examine the issues of prior restraint and press confidentiality, and describe the limits
the Court has placed on the media.
Explain the Constitution's guarantees of assembly and petition.
Summarize how the government can limit the time, place, and manner of assembly.
Compare and contrast the freedom-of-assembly issues that arise on public versus
private property.
Explore how the Supreme Court has interpreted freedom of association.
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Text: Ch. 19
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13) Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual Rights
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Due Process of Law ..............................C5.3.1, C5.3.6, C5.3.7
Freedom and Security of the Person ....C5.3.1, C5.3.6, C5.3.7
Rights of the Accused ...........................C5.3.1, C5.3.6, C5.3.7
Punishment............................................C5.3.1, C5.3.6, C5.3.7
14) Civil Liberties: Equal Justice Under Law
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Text: Ch. 20
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Explain the meaning of due process of law as set out in the 5th and 14th amendments.
Define police power and understand its relationship to civil rights.
Describe the right of privacy and its origins in constitutional law.
Outline Supreme Court decisions regarding slavery and involuntary servitude.
Explain the intent and application of the 2nd Amendment's protection of the right to
keep and bear arms.
Summarize the provisions designed to guarantee security of home and person.
Define the writ of habeas corpus, bills of attainder, and ex post facto laws.
Outline how the right to a grand jury and the guarantee against double jeopardy help
ensure the rights of the accused.
Describe issues that arise from the guarantee of a speedy and public trial.
Determine what constitutes a fair trial by jury.
Examine the right to an adequate defense and the guarantee against self-incrimination.
Explain the purpose of bail and preventive detention.
Describe the Court's interpretation of cruel and unusual punishment.
Outline the history of the Court's decisions on capital punishment.
Define the crime of treason.
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Understand what it means to live in a heterogeneous society.
Summarize the history of race-based discrimination in the United States.
Examine discrimination against women in the past and present.
Explain the importance of the Equal Protection Clause.
Describe the history of segregation in America.
Examine how classification by sex relates to discrimination.
Outline the history of civil rights legislation from Reconstruction to today.
Explore the issues surrounding affirmative action.
Identify the questions surrounding American citizenship.
Describe how people become American citizens by birth and by naturalization.
Explain how an American can lose his or her citizenship.
Illustrate how the United States is a nation of immigrants.
Compare and contrast the status of undocumented aliens and legal immigrants.
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Text: Ch. 21
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Diversity and Discrimination in American Society ...... C2.2.5,
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Equality Before the Law .................................. C2.2.3, C5.3.7
Federal Civil Rights Laws .......... C2.2.4, C3.4.3, C5.3.1 thru 9
American Citizenship .................................. C5.1.1 thru C5.2.3