1. Unit Question How do ethics and the law relate and determine the sources of laws?

2. Essential Question How are ethical decisions made?

3. Key Questions What is the golden rule and why is it the preferred way to make ethical decisions? What is empathy?

4. Essential Question What is law and why are laws necessary?

5. Key Question What ethical decision- making process would make laws obsolete?

6. Essential Question Why do a society's laws sometime conflict with personal ethics?

7. Key Question What are some examples where laws and ethics conflict? What can you do if you want to change laws?

8. Essential Question What are the five sources of our laws?

9. Key Questions What is common law? What is statutory law? What is administrative law? What is precedent? What are constitutions?

10. Essential Question What are the six principles of the Constitution?

11. Key Question What is the purpose of the system of checks and balances?