1. Day 4 Legal matters
1. The Grand Canyon is in the State of Arizona,
however the Federal Government has control over
it. Why should the Federal Government in
Washington have control?
2. What do you think the state government in
Phoenix should be able to make laws about in
Arizona?

3. Daniel Shays
• 1741-1825
• Revolutionary War veteran
• Massachusetts farmer
• In debt
• Leads rebellion
• 800 broke farmers on
Springfield, Mass.

4. Articles of Confederation
• 1781-1787
• 1st constitution of US
• Had a congress
• Free movement b/w states
• No president
• No way to raise money
• Wanted “limited government”

5. Write a new constitution
• Use the idea of “limited government”
• BE SPECIFIC
3. 5 things the federal government can do
4. 5 things the federal government can’t do
War
education
taxation voting
Food stamps
immigration religion
Political speech
Gun control
Police force
Fire fighting
Trade with other
countries
Standing army
drugs
Victims rights
criminal rights
National parks
Quartering troops Adding, subtracting states
Disease
control
marriage
Business rules
Property rights

6. New Constitution 1787
• Stronger Fed Govt
• Powers to tax, declare war, regulate
interstate $$$
• Executive: President: 4 years
• Legislative:
– Representatives: 2 years (based on pop)
– Senate: 6 years, each state gets 2
• Judicial: Courts
– Supreme Court
• CAN BE CHANGED “AMENDED”
• Does not mention slavery
• “Other persons” = 3/5

7. 5. What do these symbols represent?
6 Try name as many as you can, what do they believe
in?

8. 1st President
• George Washington
• 1789-1797
• Independent of parties
• 2 terms
• Dies in 1799
– Releases his slaves
* 1790, Washington, DC

9. Agree right
The voting age should be lowered to
16 for students with a 3.0+ GPA
Disagree left
“It Depends”… middle of room

10. Agree right
Illiterate people should not be
allowed to vote
Disagree left
“It Depends”… middle of room

11. Agree right
States should not be allowed to
leave the United States
Disagree left
“It Depends”… middle of room

12. Agree right
Government should be allowed to
tax you as much as it needs
Disagree back of room
“It Depends”… middle of room

13. Agree right
Drugs and alcohol should be
restricted in the US
Disagree back of room
“It Depends”… middle of room

14. Political Parties today
• Democratic
• Republican
• Others: Libertarians, Green, Reform

15. Federalists
Democratic-Republicans
Strong Federal Government
Common people are stupid
Lots of rules and taxes
Alexander Hamilton
John Adams
Strong State Governments
Common people should rule
Few rules, low taxes
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
1804 Burr shoots Hamilton

16. George Washington’s Farewell Speech, 1797
" Political parties serve to organize faction, to give separation an
artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the
delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but
artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to
the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public
administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous
projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and
wholesome plans digested by common counsels, and modified by
mutual interests.
"However combinations or associations of the above description may
now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of
time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning,
ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the
power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of
government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have
lifted them to unjust dominion."

17. 7. Draw a small picture to represent each old party
8. Which party, Federalists or Democratic-Republicans
did you agree with more and why?
9. Do you agree with Washington’s idea that political
parties are bad because people care more about
their party than their country?

18. As a group
Page 229
• #2 & #3

19. Legal Matters Assignment #2
As a group: use the US constitution on page 170
1. Rank the amendments that make up the Bill of Rights, most important #1,
explain choices 1-3 & 10 (Page 187)
2. When would you personally need 5 of these rights
3. Article #1, Section 8 of the Constitution has 18 parts, if you could change 3
which would they be and why?
4. Define the XYZ Affair (214) and did Congress’s reaction violate the
constitution, support with 2 clauses
5. Define the Alien and Sedition acts and did they violate the constitution,
support with 2 clauses
6. Define the First National bank (206) and did it violate the constitution,
support with 2 clauses
7. Define the Indian Removal Act (247) and did it violate the constitution,
support with 2 clauses
8. Define the Louisiana Purchase Act (218) and did it violate the constitution,
support with 2 clauses
9. Why was the Supreme Court case: Marbury vs. Madison important? (221)
10.Why would the State of Arizona lose if it tried to take over the Grand
Canyon?

20. Create an amendment to the
constitution today
• Short, somehow limiting governmental power
• We will vote for “best” one
• From states, +5 points for winning “state”

21. • 1st amendment handout

22. Judicial Review on 2 laws
“Is it constitutional”
Indian Removal Act – Constitutional yes/no
pages 246-248
1832 – Tariff of abominations yes/no
Pages 249-250

23. Assignment #3
3 of most polarizing issues in the US today are race
$$, and immigration (abortion being the other)
Pick one of these issues 1750-1900, find a Supreme
Court case or law from the text book, cite the part
of the Constitution or Bill of Rights connected to it
& a historical incident or reason for the law