Judicial Branch

Test Thursday/Friday

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Your last regular test will be this Thursday/Friday on the Judicial Branch!
It’s 25 multiple choice questions long. Use these PowerPoints and chapters 18-21 in your textbook to help you study. There will be no study guide for this test!
Please feel free to e-mail me with any questions.
(I suggest using Microstof Internet Explorer to view these [...]

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A More Perfect Constitution

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

This week we’ll spend a lot of time talking about how we can change the Constitution. Every year dozens of amendments are proposed to the Constitution an in the entire history (230+ years) of the United States, we’ve only approved 27 amendments. Of those 27, the first 10 (the Bill of Rights) were more like [...]

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Torturing a Teenager

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Here’s a frightening story.
A video released today shows a young man, 16 years old, being tortured by Canadian officials. Omar Khadr was held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the video is from 2003 (the young man is 21 now).
From the New York Times:
The mood of the detainee, Omar Khadr, just 16 years old at the [...]

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