Codifying Rules and Laws

Review Which laws are positive and which laws are negative? Positive Right require action or initiative to ensure that your right is protected; they are rules that require the state to provide individuals with a benefit. Negative Right prevent a person from doing something that would deprive another person of a right; they are rules that keep the state from depriving individuals of a liberty.

Discussion  Does it make a difference whether or not your school rules are written down? Why? What else could happen if the rules are not written down?  Does it make a difference whether rules – meaning, laws – for the state or nation are written down? Why would could happen if those rules are not written down  Who writes the laws for the state? Who writes the laws for the nation?  Does it matter who has the power to make the laws? Why or why not?

Legislative Branch  Makes Laws  Who are the lawmakers in our state?  Sal DiDomenico (senate)  Eugene O’Flaherty (house)  Kathi-Anne Reinstein (house)  Who represents us in Congress?  Michael E. Capuano (US House)  Elizabeth Warren (Senate)  Ed Markey (Senate)

Handout 12 Read the Truancy Statute and then answer…  To Whom does the law apply?  What action is forbidden?  Under what circumstances (or when) is the law applied?

Questions to Consider  Who do you think wrote this law?  What reasons do you think the law makers might have had for making this law?  What values do you see imbedded in this law?  Does the law place great value on individual freedoms or the good of the community? Why?  Does this law give you or other student power, or take power away from you ? Why do you think so?

Handout 13  Read your code  Analyze the code using handout 13  If time share out with class

Homework  Finish any of handout 16  Handout 11