9-12 Benchmark 3-A: compare and analyze the structure, power and purpose of government at the local, state, tribal and national levels as set forth in their respective constitutions or governance documents:
C#9 Performance Standards & Specifications
Analyze and evaluate the concept of limited government and the rule of law;
The U.S. Constitution at the National Archives
Limited Government | Principles of the Constitution
What is the Rule of Law?
●Identify scenarios where the rule of law is applied
Why is the US Constitution so hard to amend? - Peter Paccone
●Identify limitations as imposed by amendments
Nancy MacLean: The GOP's Long Game | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
Federalists vs Anti-Federalists in Five Minutes
Sample Question:
Read the quote below and then answer the question that follows:
There can be no free society without law administered through an independent judiciary. If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny.—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, United States v. United Mine Workers (1947)
What legal concept is supported by Justice Frankfurter’s quote?
A.popular sovereignty
B.social contract
C.the rule of law*
D.the right to due process