GOPO: Unit I by

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Major Topics

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How do Americans view the balance between governmental power and individual rights?
- Why are public HS students allowed to have Bible Study groups? tie to 1A
  - Equal Access Act of 1984
- GSA
- Is this politics? [definition]
Locke & Hobbes
- inalienable / self evident rights
Positive and Negative liberty.

Mayflower Compact

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Video review

Interactive constitution

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Freedom of Religion

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Why do you think this clip is here?

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Class #2

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The government is a social contract.
Why do we have checks and balances?
Structures of Government v. Protections from government
Federalist #10 http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm
Federalism (Hamiltonian) versus Anti-federalism (Jefferson)
Complete "Of the People" with a partner (p10). Be prepared to discuss:
- Questions listed on page 10.
- If it matters that the constitution is 225 years old...

Checks & Balances Review

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Crash Course: Checks & Balances

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Federalist #10

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#3

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Explain and compare models of American democracy

Participatory Democratic Theory
- is the internet killing or helping participatory democracy?
Pluralist Theory of Democracy
- Tocqueville
- Federalist 10 & factions

DIVERSE v. "LIKE-MINDED"

Elitist Theory
- If everything is being decided for me, why bother?
Did the founders believe that decision should be left in the hand of the people?
- Jefferson
- Hamilton
- Madison [p23]
Textbook bottom of page 22.

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Tocqueville: Tyranny of the Majority

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So in the United States the majority has an immense power in fact and a power of opinion almost as great; and once the majority has formed on a question, there is, so to speak, no obstacle that can, I will not say stop, but even slow its course and leave time for the majority to hear the cries of those whom it crushes as it goes. The consequences of this state of affairs are harmful and dangerous for the future.

Class #5

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Conditions favorable for Constitutional Democracy

Educated populace
Relative Prosperity {Starving people are more interested in food than voting)
Relatively calm social conditions (multiple associations)
Idealogical consensus (does that mean people can't disagree?)
Stability

[all of these seem pretty straight forward]

Tocqueville

-- I thought majority rules! What is the Tyranny of the Majority?

Complete Tocqueville activities...

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Federalist 10

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Word Cloud

Separation of Powers Diagram

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Establisment clause
Free exercise clause

#2

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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

"The word 'democracy' is nowhere to be found in the Declaration of Independence or in the U.S. Constitution, nor was it a term the founders used..." [p23, old book]

Essential Q: wth?

How important were the following enumerated values in the Declaration of Independence?

Personal liberty
Individualism
Equality
Opportunity & the American dream
Popular sovereignty

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Do any of these ideas contradict one another?

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