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Reading Guide: The Constitution
Directions: Complete the pre-read portion prior to reading each textbook
chapter. Use the textbook to help you find the answers to the following
questions. You must cite the page where you located each answer. When
you finish reading return to the beginning of each reading guide to identify
the main idea of the textbook lesson and create 2 hashtags about it.
Due: 11/15
Principles of the Constitution
Chapter 8: Lesson 1(pages 206-211)
Pre-Read: “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Do
you think this statement is true? Why or why not?
Questions
6. Identify a concurrent power.
7. What is a possible consequence of the separation
of powers?
8. Identify the 2 individual rights you find to be the
most important from the list in the text.
9. What do most of the amendments from the bill of
rights have in common?
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10. How is the Constitution a flexible document?
*after reading the lesson please create 2 hashtags about it
Questions
Where?
1. How many principles are there in our government
under the Constitution?
2. According to Popular Sovereignty who is in
control of the government?
3. The terms ______________ and representative
government mean the same thing, generally.
4. Why did the framers want to establish a limited
government?
5. What is federalism?
11. Where do amendments to the Constitution get
their start?
12. Why do you think the Framers of the Constitution
made it difficult to amend?
13. What three clauses are the source for the idea of
implied power?
Where?
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Due: 11/22
Government and the People
Chapter 8: Lesson 2(212-215)
Pre-Read: How are the different branches of government like the different
positions on a team?
Questions
6. What is the role played by the president?
7. Who is at the top of the US legal system?
8. How are Justices of the Supreme Court selected?
9. What is the role played by a Supreme Court
Justice?
Main Idea:
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*after reading the lesson please create 2 hashtags about it
Questions
Where?
1. What are the names of the 3 branches of
government?
2. How many representatives are in the House?
10. Of the 3 amendments discussed on page 214,
which one do you think is the most important?
Why?
11. How are our rights and freedoms limited?
3. How many senators are in the Senate?
4. How are those numbers decided?
5. Why is it important for people from every part of
the United States to be represented fairly in the
legislature?
12. How can a person become a US citizen? (2 ways)
13. What is the difference between a duty and a
responsibility?
14. Identify a duty of a US citizen.
Where?