Constitutional Amendments

Constitutional Amendments

Welcome C&E Students • Find your seat and settle in • Take out your Bill of Rights G.O. and review it. • Be prepared to answer the roll-call question: ““Would you rather be able to fly, be invisible or be able to breath under water?” • Bell work:

Bellwork Answers

Let’s Get Our Bill of Rights On! • As you watch the BofR video, use your handout to match the correct amendment to its appropriate description. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXopINJmxkE

So what are your rights?

Do You Know Your Rights? • You will be split into groups • You will be given an envelope with various scenarios that demonstrate a right (from the Bill of Rights) being violated • You will determine what right is being violated on the blank slips of paper. • First group to finish and with all answers correct will receive a homework pass.

I. Extending the Bill of Rights • A. Amendments 11-27 were passed after the Constitution was adopted. • B. Amendments 11 & 12 • 1. Eleventh Amendment: Places limits on suits against other states. • 2. Twelfth Amendment: Revises the procedure for electing the president and vice president.

II. Civil War Amendments • A. 3 Amendments were passed after the Civil War to extend the civil liberties to African Americans. • 1. Thirteenth Amendment: Outlawed slavery and any kind of forced labor • a. While it freed the slaves it didn’t guarantee them full rights • b. Many Southern States passed “Black Laws” that excluded African Americans from jobs, limited property rights among other things

2. Fourteenth Amendment: Most important Amendment • a. Defined citizenship - All citizens must have equal protection under the law • 3. Fifteenth Amendment: (1870) African Americans granted suffrage – right to vote

III. Progressive Era Amendments • A. Sixteenth Amendment: Gives Congress the power to levy an income tax • B. Seventeenth Amendment: Enables voters to elect senators directly • C. Eighteenth Amendment: Prohibits making alcohol or selling alcoholic beverages (prohibition) • D. Nineteenth Amendment: Gives women the right to vote

IV. Later Amendments • A. Twentieth Amendment: Changes the dates of congressional and presidential terms • B. Twenty-first Amendment: Repeals Prohibition (#18) • C. Twenty-Second Amendment: Limits President to two terms in office • D. Twenty-Third Amendment: (1961) Gives Residents of D.C. the right to vote

E. Twenty-Fourth Amendment: (1964) eliminates the poll tax – they required voters to pay a sum of money before casting their ballot. • 1. B/c many African Americans could not afford the tax, they could not vote. • F. Twenty-Fifth Amendment: (1967) Establishes procedures for succession of the president

G. Twenty-Sixth Amendment: Sets voting age at 18 years • H. Twenty-Seventh Amendment: Delays congressional pay raises until the term following their passage

Carousel Activity – Amendments and Supreme Court Cases • You and your 2 teammates will each become experts on one portion of the 27 Amendments and the Supreme Court Cases that correspond to them. • You should each decide which group you would like to learn more about. • Once you have decided you will split up and search around the room for information pertaining to your amendment(s) and cases. • When you have completed your portion of the graphic organizer, you must return to your original group and teach your teammates about your amendment(s) and cases. • You will learn about the others from your teammates

Bill of Rights Finger Trick • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82DnWqNKqiI

Constitutional Amendments