Today

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Todays Agenda

• Finish 3.2 wkst. And go over it
• Begin Movie
• Issues to watch for
• 5th Amendment
• 6th Amendment
• 8th Amendment
• Role of Free Press
• Homework
• Constitutional Scavenger Hunt Due tomorrow
• 5 points off each day late

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Chapter 3A Look at the Constitution

• 3.2 Articles V Through VII

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Question

• Should same-sex marriage be banned?
• How would it happen?

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S E C T I O N 2Formal Amendment

• What are the different ways to formally amend, or
  change the wording of, the Constitution?
• How many times has the Constitution been amended?
• What is the Bill of Rights?

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Lets Review

• 1st ten Amendments are called.
• Guarantees
• Freedom of Speech, Religion, Assembly, Press
• States Rights
• No cruel and unusual punishment
• Due process of law
• Speedy trial / council
• Privacy
• Bear arms
• Principle of the Constitution which creates a
  system of overlapping the powers of the
  legislative, executive, and judicial branches, to
  permit each branch to check the actions of the
  others
• Judicial branchs power to nullify (cancel out) a
  law determine the constitutionality of an action
  of the government
• Supreme Court Case in which Judicial Review was
  created

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The Constitution is 224 years old!

• The United States in 1789
• US Constitution went into effect
• Less than 4 million people
• 90 involved in agricultural work
• Made up of 13 states
• Life expectancy-late 50s
• No electricity, no cars
• The United States in 2014
• 320 million Americans
• Complex and globally interconnected economy
• 50 states
• Life expectancy- 79
• Nuclear weapons, power, Internet, Global
  economy.
• Complex social issues

How can a document written 224 years ago still be
relevant today?
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Overview

• When the Constitution was written, provisions
  were made to allow for amendments that would
  reflect the changing needs of the people. In
  Section 2, you will learn about the four methods
  of formal amendment, and will begin to examine
  the Bill of Rights.

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What is Article V of the Constitution?

• Framers knew that Constitution would need to grow
  as the nation grew
• Article V sets methods to formally amend the
  Constitution
• Amendment A change in, or addition to, a
  constitution or law

Article V The Congress, whenever two thirds of
both houses shall deem it necessary, shall
propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on
the application of the legislatures of two thirds
of the several states, shall call a convention
for proposing amendments, which, in either case,
shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as
part of this Constitution, when ratified by the
legislatures of three fourths of the several
states, or by conventions in three fourths
thereof, as the one or the other mode of
ratification may be proposed by the Congress
provided that no amendment which may be made
prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and
eight shall in any manner affect the first and
fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first
article and that no state, without its consent,
shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the
Senate.
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  What is the most common way to propose an amend
the Constitution?

• Propose means to suggest (a change)
• Amendment can be proposed in US Congress by a
  two-thirds vote
• Or
• Amendment can be proposed by 2/3 of states
• Who would hold a National Convention

The Equal Rights Amendment
Federalism
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  How can an Amendment be ratified?

• Ratification means to approve
• Amendment can be ratified by
• three-fourths of the State legislatures (38 of 50
  states)
• OR
• special conventions in three-fourths of the
  States (38 of 50)
• Created as a way of bypassing state legislatures
  and express the will of the people
• Only 21st Amendment adopted in this fashion
• Repealed 18th (Prohibition)

What guiding principle of the Constitution is at
work here?
Answer Federalism
What Guiding Principle of the Constitution is at
work here?
Answer Popular Sovereignty
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Is it easy to amend the Constitution?

• NO
• Over 200 amendment proposals every year
• Only 27 Amendments have been adopted so far

• Strange Proposed Amendments
• Ban interracial marriage (1912)
• Making divorce illegal (1884)
• A ban on drunkenness (1938)
• Instead of one president, three presidents (1878)
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• Renaming the country "United States of the Earth"
  (1893)
• Limiting personal wealth to 1 million (1933)
• Abolishing Army/Navy (1893)

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Article VI (6) Law of the Land

• Supremacy Clause States that the Constitution is
  the Supreme Law of the Land
• Supersedes all state and local law

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Amendments to the Constitution

• Collectively, the first ten amendments are known
  as the Bill of Rights. They set out many of our
  basic freedoms.

Chapter 3, Section 2
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Ticket Out

• Use pages 52-65 and Complete 3.2 Bill of Rights
  worksheet