1. Day 1 – Structure and Principles of the Constitution
Constitution Week
Day 1 – Structure and Principles of the Constitution

2. Constitution Week – Day 1
Pick 5 pieces of the color paper off the back shelf.
Make a 10 Page (including cover) Foldable
This will be where all of your notes will be kept for the week.
At the end of the week this will count as a grade.

3. Foldable Step 1 Each students gets 5 sheets of paper
Stagger each sheet of paper about ¼ of an inch
See example on next slide

4. See how the pages are staggered – each line is a new page laying over the next.

5. Foldable Step 2
Fold the pages over on each other so that you end up with 10 staggered pages in your foldable.
See example on next slide

7. Foldable Step 3 Step 3 Finished Product
Teacher will staple your foldable when you are ready

8. Foldable Step 4 - Labeling
Cover – “Constitution Week”
Tab 1 – America’s Mottos
Tab 2 – Miranda v. Arizona / Miranda Rights
Tab 3 – Federalism/Checks and Balances/Separation of Powers
Tab 4 – Preamble / Article 1 – Legislative Branch
Tab 5 – Article 2 – Executive Branch / Article 3 – Judicial Branch
Tab 6 – Article 5 – Amendment Process / Article 6 – National Supremacy
Tab 7 – Founding Fathers
Tab 8 – American Values / Dec. of Independence
Tab 9 – Bill of Rights

9. NOW TO BEGIN

10. Structure of the Constitution
Take out your Constitution Week foldable you created yesterday.
Under TAB 1, write the U.S. Motto (if you know it)
NO ELECTRONIC DEVICES ALLOWED!!!
Take out a U.S. coin.
Take out any U.S. dollar bill (a $1 or $5, or $10, etc.)
Do you see the U.S. Motto
It’s “IN GOD WE TRUST”

11. Structure of the Constitution
TAB 2
Miranda Rights were created in 1966 as a result of the United States Supreme Court case of Miranda v. Arizona.
Miranda rights do not go into effect until after an arrest is made.

12. Warm-Up - try to answer without smartphones first
Who is the President of the United States of America? ____________________
Who is the Vice President? _______________________________
What are the three branches of our government? ________________________, __________________________ and ___________________________
What five rights are protected in the first amendment to the Constitution? ______________________, ______________________, ______________________, ______________________ and ___________________
How many states are there in the United States? _________________
What are the two branches of our Congress? ____________________________ and ___________________________
Which city is our nation’s capital? _________________________________
How old do U.S. citizens have to be before they can vote? _____________
Which two presidents have been impeached (although neither one was found guilty or removed from office)? ______________________________ and __________________________

13. Structure of the Constitution
TAB 3 at the top – Contains several methods for limiting the growth of government power
Divide the page into 3 even sections
Federalism – The power of government is separated between the national and state levels – each having powers that the other does not.
Checks and Balances – Each branch of government has some power to act on or limit the others (like a veto or impeachment).
Separation of Powers – Each branch has unique powers that the other does not (Legislative branch can coin money).

14. Structure of the Constitution
Tab 4 – Divide page into 2 even sections
Preamble – Lays out the purposes for the Constitution and establishes the people as the source of government power – Popular Sovereignty (We The People…)
Article 1 – Creates a bicameral legislature (2 chambers) – the House of Representatives and Senate.
House has 435 members and is based on population
Senate has 2 members per state (100 total currently)
The most powerful of the branches

15. Structure of the Constitution
Tab 5 – Divide page Into 2 even sections
Article 2 – Establishes the president as an individual person who serves a 4 year term and creates the Electoral College to select the president. President is given the authority to enforce the laws and lists other powers.
Article 3 – Creates the Supreme Court and lower courts of the judicial branch. Judges are appointed by the president with approval of the Senate for life terms. Final say on what the meaning of the Constitution and national laws is.

16. Structure of the Constitution
Tab 6 – Divide page into 2; making one side larger than the other
Article 5 – Amendment Process (See next slide)
Article 6 – Supremacy Clause – Constitution, Amendments, all national laws, and treaties are supreme over state laws.

17. Amendment Process

18. Founding Fathers
John Adams (2nd President…was a grammar school teacher…first to live in White House)
Thomas Jefferson (wrote the Declaration of Independence…3rd President…fluent in 5 languages)
Benjamin Franklin (oldest signer of Declaration of Independence…Ambassador to France during Revolution)
Alexander Hamilton (1st Treasury Secretary…died in a dual)
John Jay (1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court)
James Madison (wrote the 1st Constitution…4th President)
George Washington (1st President…never went to college)

19. American Values / Dec. of Independence
Declaration of Independence (DoI)
signed by 56 men
none were born in America
Ratified on July 2
Signed on July 4
America had been at war for almost a year already
Listed 13 reasons that the colonies wanted to be free
A committee of 5 men wrote the DoI
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Roger Sherman
Robert Livingston
Benjamin Franklin

20. American Values / Dec. of Independence
Life
Liberty
Pursuit of Happiness