1. INTRODUCTION TO CON LAW/AP GOV’T

2. DEMOCRACY Webster’s Encyclopedia “Government by the people ” “a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them either directly or through their elected agents.” Who are the people ?

3. WARM UP QUESTIONS What is the best way to make a decision when you are with a large group of people? Why?

4. QUESTIONS Should the juniors get more a curve because it is the most important year in terms of colleges? Should the seniors get a free period a week in this class once they have be accepted to college? Should the juniors always get to assign people to groups in group activities.

5. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE "If it be admitted that a man possessing absolute power may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should not a majority be liable to the same reproach? Men do not change their characters by uniting with one another; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with their strength. For my own part, I cannot believe it; the power to do everything, which I should refuse to one of my equals, I will never grant to any number of them."

6. PROBLEMS WITH MAJORITY RULE

7. WHAT CAN YOU PUT IN PLACE TO PROTECT THE MINORITY?

8. WHAT DO WE HAVE IN PLACE TO PROTECT THE MINORITY? Separation of Powers Federalism Bill of Rights