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Please find attached the fully-filled-in versions of the First Amendment notes and the remaining notes for the unit (#s 7-10).  Please review 6-8 before you next come to class so that I can clarify anything you don't understand or about which you have questions.  You'll notice that #s 9&10 are a different format - please let me know if you prefer it to the standard outline format after you've used them! :)

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* Have a very restful and rejuvenating break! I'll miss you!!
* Please feel free to email me with any questions about any of the below tasks!!!
* Recommended Netflixing/OnDemanding for your free time: The West Wing (especially seasons 1-5), Parks and Recreation (especially seasons 2-present)
 * Less comedic viewing, but still great stuff: Walkout, Iron Jawed Angels, Frost/Nixon, Thank You for Smoking, Thirteen Days (earmuffs on that one, though!)

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Attached are the notes for #10.  Please let me know if you have any questions!!

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SCOTUS: Here are the last few slides we didn't finish today.  Please email me with any questions!! :)

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Please find attached the skeleton notes for Unit Two as well as the Federalist 10 assignment and the V.O. Key reading questions (which are also below in case you want to copy and paste them into a Word document and type your responses)

1.      What assumption does Key contend is a “mischievous error?”

2.    Key contends, based on research about voter behavior, that if I know the below four characteristics about a voter, I can probably predict his vote:

3.    What does Key mean when he describes politics as an “echo chamber?”

4.    What does Key conclude is the true significance of theories of how voters behave?

5.    What “portrait of the electorate” does Key believe has developed from data regarding recent American presidential campaigns?

 

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Please find attached the fully-filled-in #7 notes!

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Please find attached skeleton notes for this unit's lectures, along with other items that may be helpful :)

If it's easier for you to copy and paste the questions that accompany the Federalist 51 reading assignment into a Word document so that you can type your answers, feel free to do so - they are below:

1. According to Federalist 51, what is essential to the “preservation of liberty”? How should this “be so constituted”?

2. Explain the following: “A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”

3. In a republican government, which branch is the strongest? Identify three ways of “remedying this inconveniency”

4. List two ways in which the federalist system of the U.S. “places that system in a very interesting point of view” (i.e. protects against tyranny)

5. List one way in which each of the following protect against tyranny (i.e. reflects federalism):
(a) separation of powers
(b) checks and balances

6. Write an introductory paragraph of a hypothetical Federalist paper of your own construction (choose one controversial aspect of the proposed Constitution and convince the skeptics that said aspect is in fact fabulous)