Strand 3
Civics and Government
Concept 3: Functions of Government
PO 1. Analyze the functions of government as defined in the Preamble to the Constitution.
PO 2. Examine how the Constitution guarantees due process of law through Constitutional mandates and Amendments.
- Constitutional mandates (e.g., the right of habeas corpus, no bill of attainder, and the prohibition of ex post facto laws)
- Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Amendments
- protection provided by the Fourteenth Amendment
Concept 4: Rights, Responsibilities, and Roles of Citizenship
PO 1. Analyze basic individual rights and freedoms guaranteed by Amendments and laws:
- freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition in the First Amendment
- right to bear arms in the Second Amendment
- Ninth Amendment and guarantee of people’s unspecified rights
- civil rights in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments
- voting rights in the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-third, Twenty fourth, and Twenty-sixth Amendments; Native American citizenship and voting rights (Arizona, 1948); Voting Rights Act of 1965
- conflicts which occur between rights (e.g., the tensions between the right to a fair trial and freedom of the press, and between majority rule and individual rights)
- right to work laws
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