Congratulations and thank you for staying engaged through e-learning.  All that is left is for me to finish up your grades.  You guys have been an amazing group and I am looking forward to seeing you next year!  Have a great summer!

Answer the following questions in your notebook...

1.  How does the Bill of Rights protect citizens and states from an overpowering national government?  Hint:  Recall the reason that these 10 amendments were added to the US Constitution in the first place.....cough...cough...Antifederalists....cough.....

2.  What limitations are there on our freedom of speech and religion?  Hint: Think setting.

3.  Why are the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th considered the "rights of the accused"?  Hint:  Think like someone wrongfully accused.

4.  In what ways is the 2nd amendment different than the other civil liberties expressed in the Bill of Rights?  Hint:  "infringed"

1.  Why did the court reverse the Plessy v Ferguson (1896) separate but equal doctrine the case of Brown v Board of Education (1954)?  Hint:  It is "inherently unequal"

Watch the following video and answer the questions that are listed below...

1. The Constitution says that there shall be a Supreme Court, who makes and creates all other courts and rules about the courts?
2. How are the Federal Courts structured? 
3. What does Judicial Review mean and what case did it come from?