• On This Day: Constitution Day (5 Clips)

• Video Clip: How to Read the Constitution (2:39)

• Lesson Plan: Constitution Scavenger Hunt (1 Clip with activities)

• Lesson Plan: The Purposes of Government (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Enumerated and Implied Powers of Congress (1 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Bill of Rights in Modern Times (2 Clips)

• Lesson: The Bill of Rights Choice Board (Constitution Clip Activity) 

• Bell Ringer: Justice Elena Kagan on Constitutional Interpretation (4:45)  

• Bell Ringer: History of Constitution Day (2:15)

• Bell Ringer: Ideals of the Constitution (13:34)

• Bell Ringer: Direct Democracy, Populism and the Constitution (1:53)

• Bell Ringer: The Writ of Habeas Corpus and the Constitution (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Bill of Rights (7:11)

• Bell Ringer: The Constitution and Repairing Political Division (2 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: How Should the Constitution be Interpreted? (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board: Our Founding Documents (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Constitutional Debate Choice Board- George Mason v. James Madison (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Influence of the Declaration of Independence on the Constitution (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Constitutional Convention (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Predecessors to the Bill of Rights (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Thomas Paine and Common Sense (1:37)

• Lesson Plan: The Federalist Papers (3 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Federalist 10 (3 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Federalist 51 (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Federalist 70 (2 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Federalist 78 (1 Clip)

• Video Clip: Judge Kavanaugh on the Federalist Papers (2:45)

• Video Clip: The Great Compromise (3:01)

• Video Clip: Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution (:42)

• Bell Ringer: The Mayflower Compact (3:18)

• Bell Ringer: The Articles of Confederation: Overview and Power (3:01)    

• Bell Ringer: The Articles of Confederation and Foreign Policy (3:37)   

• Bell Ringer: Benjamin Franklin: His Ideas and Contributions (16:12)

• Bell Ringer: We the People (1:50)

• Bell Ringer: Philosopher John Locke (3:38)

• Bell Ringer: Philosopher David Hume (4:23)

• Bell Ringer: Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations (2:28)

• Bell Ringer: Montesquieu (4:17)

• Bell Ringer: Philosophers Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine (2:59)

• Bell Ringer: Thomas Paine's Common Sense  (4:10)

• Bell Ringer: The Struggle between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (5:21)

• Bell Ringer: The Constitutional Convention (4:57)

• Bell Ringer: Civility at the Constitutional Convention (4:04)

• Bell Ringer: The Federalist Papers (6:04)

• Bell Ringer: George Mason and the Bill of Rights (4:16)

• Lesson Plan: Checks and Balances (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Presidential Pardons (11 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Origination of the Pardon Power (2:11)

• Lesson Plan: Congress' Power of Impeachment (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Congressional Oversight of the Executive Branch (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Use of Presidential Vetoes and Veto Threats (8 Clips) 

• Bell Ringer: The Constitutional Foundation for Presidential Appointments (5:22)

• Bell Ringer: The Senate's Power to Ratify Treaties (5:27)

• Bell Ringer: Supreme Court Nomination Process (3:27)

• Bell Ringer: Judicial Review and Federalist 78 (4:36)

• Lesson Plan: Marbury v. Madison (4 Clips)

• Lesson: Policymaking and the Three Branches of Government (4 Clips)

• Video Clip: Separation of Powers and the Constitution (4:30)

• Video Clip: Separation of Powers and the Rule of Law (2:23)

• Bell Ringer: Separation of Powers and Individual Liberties (3:19)

• Bell Ringer: Limited Government- Federalism and Separation of Powers (2:02)

Constitutional Foundations of Federalism

• Lesson Plan: Federalism in the United States (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: McCulloch v. Maryland (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Benefits of Federalist Systems of Government (4:52)

• Bell Ringer: Federalism and Separation of Powers (2:15)

• Bell Ringer: The Role of State and Local Governments (6:09)

• Bell Ringer: The History of States' Rights (4:20)

• Bell Ringer: Constitutional Questions of States' Rights (5:06)

• Bell Ringer: Federalism and the 10th Amendment (3:54)

• Bell Ringer: The Necessary and Proper Clause (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Supremacy Clause (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The 14th Amendment and Incorporation (2:05)

• Bell Ringer: Dual Federalism (2:15)

• Bell Ringer: Concurrent Powers (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Full Faith and Credit (2 Clips) 

Examples of Federalism

• • Lesson Plan: Formation of State Constitutions (9 Clips)

  • Lesson: The Role of the Federal Government in Education (6 Clips)

  • Lesson: The Redistricting Process: How States Draw District Maps (7 Clips)

  • Lesson: Compensating College Athletes for their Name, Image and Likeness (11 Clips)

  • Deliberation : Should the federal government decriminalize marijuana? (10 Clips)

  • Deliberation: Should the federal minimum wage be raised? (13 Clips)

  • Deliberation: How can the government better respond to natural disasters? (14 Clips) 

  • Lesson Plan: Voting and the Effects of Shelby County v. Holder (8 Clips)

  • Deliberation: Should the federal government bail out state and local governments facing budget shortfalls? (9 Clips)

  • Deliberation: Should the government provide free college for students? (10 Clips)

  • Bell Ringer: The Role of the Federal Government in Elections (5:44)

  • Bell Ringer: The Constitutional Foundation for State Voting Laws (2:41)

  • Bell Ringer: Federalism and the Every Student Succeeds Act (2:23)

• Lesson Plan: 1st Amendment Freedoms Choice Board (Clips and Activities)

• Lesson Plan: The Expansion of Voting in the United States (10 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Police Raid of a Kansas Paper and Concerns over Press Freedom (7:41)

• Lesson Plan: The Rule of Law in the United States (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Ensuring the Rule of Law (3:46)

• Bell Ringer: Criminal Prosecution and the Rule of Law (3:31)

• Bell Ringer: Rule of Law, Equal Protection and Rights (2:40)

• Bell Ringer: Supreme Court Justices on the Rule of Law (8:14)

• Bell Ringer: Justice Ginsburg and the Expansion of Equal Protection (1:44)

• Bell Ringer: Citizenship Before the 14th Amendment (8:06)

• Bell Ringer: The 14th Amendment and State Action Doctrine (3:09)

• Bell Ringer: Interpretation of the 14th Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause (3:07)

• Bell Ringer: The Significance of the 14th Amendment and Equal Protection Clause (3:01) 

• Bell Ringer: The U.S. Constitution and the Prevention of Tyranny (2:40)

• Lesson Plan: Students' Rights (7 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Minority Rights & Majority Rule (8:42)

• Lesson Plan: Senate Debate Analysis- Due Process Rights (3 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Due Process Protections and Imprisonment (3:18)

• Lesson Plan: Rights of the Accused (3:34)

• Bell Ringer: State Department Human Rights Report (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Freedom in the 50 States (2 Clips)