Electoral College votes in the 2008 election

Presidential Term
Maine and Nebraska
Qualifications for President
Cabinet
Commander in Chief
Advice and Consent
Take Care Clause
State of the Union
Inauguration

Work on the packet for Article III and WORK ON YOUR CONSTITUTION NEXUS THIS WEEKEND!!!

Bill of Attainder
Ex Post Facto Laws
President
Electoral College
Electors

Continue working on your Constitution Nexus.

Simple majority
Super majority
Conference Committee
Override
Enumerated Powers
Implied Powers
Inherent Powers
Commerce Clause
Naturalization
Copyrights
Patents
War Powers Act 1973
Habeas Corpus
Necessary and Proper Clause
Elastic Clause

Work on your Constitution Nexus for at least 20 minutes and then work on your Article II packet for 20 minutes.

Constitution Word Bank continued:

Quorum
Filibuster
Cloture
Veto
Pocket Veto

Preamble Quiz tomorrow!

Our Constitution Word Bank so far:

Age of Enlightenment
John Locke 1632-1704
State of Nature
Natural Rights Philosophy
Unalienable
Social Contract
Law of Nature

Vellum
James Madison 1751-1836
Gouverneur Morris 17522-1816
Jacob Shallus
Preamble
Articles of Confederation 1781-1788
Shay's Rebellion 1786-1787

U.S. Constitution 1787, ratified 1788
Constitutional Convention 1787
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Popular Sovereignty

Legislative Branch
Bicameral Legislature
House of Representatives
Senate
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
Qualifications for Representative
Term length for Representative
Three-Fifths Compromise
Census
Reapportionment
Redistricting
435 (maximum number of Representatives in the House)
Gerrymandering
Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelossi
Impeachment
Qualifications for Senator
Term length for Senator
Vice President
President of the Senate
President Pro Tempore

Prepare for the Preamble quiz on Wednesday. All punctuation and spelling must be accurate, including the British spelling of "defence." Remember that each mistake will be 10% off. You can earn extra credit by including all the "random" (really stylistic) capitals.

Start to work on your Constitution Nexus.

Read about Shay's Rebellion in the packet you got today, pages 44-45.

Finish your third essay as homework tonight.

Namaste

For Tuesday's test:

The short essay questions will be based on the following. You will choose three on which to focus. You will be able to use your book while writing and can prepare for Tuesday by making sure you have marked all appropriate references. I will collect all books after the test.

-Role of Bystanders
-Role of Religion
-Role of Media
-Role of Adults
-"Mending Wall"
-"North won the war, but the South won the peace."
-Difference between desegregation and integration

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Examine the constitutional "test" that events at Little Rock in 1957/58 provoked.

You can write your introduction over the weekend. Bring the introduction to class on Monday to be stapled to the rest of your in-class essay. You will need to use the following terms (except for those that follow the dotted line) appropriately and meaningfully in Part I on Monday.

Resources:
WWLB=Words We Live By; ATB= "About this Book;" W=Warriors Don't Cry; BvBE=Brown v. Board of Education (primary source); EOTP= Eyes on the Prize (video); P= photos by Will Counts of Elizabeth Eckford and Alex Wilson; A= accounts of Alex Wilson and Benjamin Fine

Federalism WWLB 118, 194
Sovereignty
States Rights WWLB 194
Nationalism WWLB 194
Interposition/ Nullification WWLB 196
Plessy v Ferguson 1896 ATB x, WWLB 219-220
Separate but equal ATB x, WWLB 219-220
Justice John Marshall Harlan ATB x, WWLB 220
Jim Crow Laws ATB x, WWLB 220
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 1954 ATB viii, ix; WWLB 221
Brown II 1955
Thurgood Marshall ATB x, W
Chief Justice Earl Warren ATB ix, BVBE
Amendment XIV WWLB 212
Equal Protection Clause WWLB 212, 219
Amendment X WWLB 194
Article VI WWLB 118
Supremacy Clause WWLB 118, 119
Governor Faubus ATB viii, W
Arkansas National Guard W
101st Airborne W
NAACP ATB x, W
President Eisenhower W
Gandhi W
Namaste W

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De Facto
Governor Ross Barnett EOTP
James Meredith EOTP
Medgar Evers EOTP
John F. Kennedy EOTP
Dr. Kenneth Clark W

Finish Warriors for Wednesday.

Alex Wilson

Read to page 220 in Warriors.

Read to page 175 for Friday.

Read to page 135 in Warriors for Thursday.

Read to page 105 in Warriors for Wednesday.

Read to page 65 in Warriors.

Melba Patillo Beals

Read to page 32 in Warriors. Read the handout "About this book" that was given to you in class. Look for the words in the Warriors word bank that you listed in your Nexus.