 How does the Constitution protect our basic rights?  Bill of rights, freedom of expression, etc…

 How does the Constitution protect our freedom of expression  1 st Amendment  1. What is freedom of expression?  Is freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, and petition  2. The First Amendment limits the powers of?  Congress

 3. Take brief notes on the following:  A. Individual development- right to present your ideas, you should respect others.  B. Advancement of knowledge- Listen to other people to see what they half to say.  C. Maintenance of representative democracy- Vote our representatives to Congress

 4. In the Supreme Court Case Tinker v. Des Moines, what did the students want?  Wear black armband to school to protest the Vietnam War  5. What did the Supreme Court say about a students right to freedom of expression?  School cannot limit a students freedom of expression, unless it disrupt the educational process. Students do not give up their constitution rights at the schoolhouse gate

 6. Over the years, who has developed guidelines to limit freedom of expression?  Courts in our country

 1. Students wanted to publish stories about what two issues?  1- About teenage pregnancy  2- About divorce and made negative remarks about her father.  2. How did the principal react to the stories?  Told them to remove it before it was printed and distributed.

 #3. What are some circumstances that might cause government to limit the right to freedom of expression?

 Research Richland Board Policy #220. Research Richland Board Policy #220.  Summarize your findings…

 1. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”  Take brief notes on: ▪ Establishment of religion- Congress may not establish an official religion ▪ Free exercise- Congress may not stop you from having any religious beliefs you choose. Govt. may not unfairly limit your right to practice your religious beliefs.

 2. Did religious freedom exist in the early English colonies?  Not really one religious group may have had complete control  3. Why were the founding fathers concerned about religious intolerance?  Religious intolerance had often led to conflict  4. Government is to be separated from religion. What clause is this idea found in?  Establishment clause  5. The government can limit the way you practice your religious beliefs under what conditions??  If they are contrary to public morals, endanger health, or harm the common goods

 6. When the constitution was written did public schools exist?  NO  7. Should religious teaching be supported in public schools? Explain…  Yes, because if some people are religious maybe they can go to that teacher instead of the ones that are not religious. But no at the same time because they might not believe and they might be forced to do the stuff.

 5. Can government limit your right to freedom of belief? Why or why not?  No, this freedom is protected by the First Amendment’s free exercise clause

 Research the following Supreme Court cases:  Take brief notes:  Allegheny County v. ACLU, Allegheny County v. ACLU  -courts finds that a nativity scene displayed inside a govt.  Lee v. Weisman Lee v. Weisman  -Unconstitonal for schools to provide clery to perform  Engel v. Vitale Engel v. Vitale --

 1. In early colonial times, who was allowed to vote?  White men who owned property & belonged to a particular religious groups  2. Before the Civil War, who still could not vote?  African Americans and woman  3. List the Civil War Amendments…  The 13, 14, and 15 amendment  4. Which Amendment abolished slavery?  Thirteenth  5. Which Amendment granted full citizenship to African Americans?  fourteenth  6. What laws prevented African Americans from voting?  Literacy test, grandfather clause, poll tax

 7. The grandfather clause said- That a person has the right to vote only if his grandfather the right to vote.  8. People of all races worked to change unfair state laws, these actions became known as: Civil Rights movement  9. This amendment says that the right to vote shall not be denied because a person fails to pay a poll tax?  Twenty-fourth amendement  10. In the 1800s, it was a common belief that __________ should not participate in the government.  Women

 11. In 1876, who led a delegation of women to Philadelphia.  Susan B. Anthony  12. Name and year, of the first territory to grant women the right to vote?  Wyoming, 1869  13. What happened in 1920?  Nineteenth Amendment ratified– woman right to vote  14. Native Americans were not fully recognized as citizens until what year?  1924  15. In the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of young man were drafted to fight in what war?  Vietnam War.

 16. What did the Twenty-sixth Amendment do?  Grants the rights to vote to any citizen who is 18 years of age in order  17. List 3 voting requirements today?  Right to vote, live in the state for a period of time before they can vote, and citizens to register before voting. Photo ID.  18. The United States ranks _________ among the world’s democracies in the percentage of voters who exercise the right to vote?  Eleventh  19. What is essential for a democracy?  Responsible Voting

 #4. What laws did Congress pass to protect the constitutional right of citizens to vote?  The voting rights act of 1965 and the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

 1. Voter registration form in Cambria County…  Write down 3 items you see on the form…  Name, Address, Date of Birth

 1. State and local laws required separate facilities. Explain…  2. What does the equal protection clause of the 14 th Amendment say?  3. Laws that required African Americans to go to separate schools are known as?

 4. Take brief notes on the following:  Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)  Brown v. Education (1954)

 5. Separation of the races is known as?  6. Who ordered federal troops to escort students into a school in Little Rock, Arkansas?  7. When did the civil rights movement start?  8. Term which means, to refuse to buy?  9. Explain what happened to Rosa Parks?

 10. When and where did Dr. King give his “I Have a Dream” speech?  11. What law ended segregation in public places?  12. What groups followed African Americans in their own quest for equal protection?

 #4. What did the U.S. Supreme Court decide in the Brown v. Board of Education case? Why was this an important decision?

 1. Watch Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech. Take brief notes…

 1. The right to be treated fairly by government?  Due process  2. Due process  Procedures-government must use fair procedures when they apply and enforce the law.  Content-laws of the legislature must be fair and resonable  3. Due process can be found in what 2 Amendments? Fifth and fourtheenth

 1. Make a list of unfair procedures used by govt. officials in the case:  Before the hearing  - Sheriff didn’t tell boys’ parents that he had been taken to detention home.  At the first hearing  -No one was asked to swear to tell the truth  -No record was made, no lawyers were present  At the second hearing  -no one is asked to swear to tell the truth  -No record was made

 4. P. 239 Problems of due process involve two govt. responsibilities. Explain  1. Protect the right of the individual that has broke the law.  2. To protect everyone from breaking law and endanger the lives, liberty, or property of everyone

 5. Due process applies to what hearings?  Local school board hearing, congressional hearings.

 #2. What is the meaning of due process?  The procedures used to conduct hearings and enforce the law must be fair

 1. Research due process in the news  choose an article and write a brief summary.  Vilma lawyer: Players not getting right of due process  They try to get his work done and help him and get it all done