Rights, Liberties, and the Limits of Government Power: Social Studies Unit 3, Grade 12 (Letters & Devotion)

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Rights, Liberties, and the Limits of Government Power is Unit 3 of Foundations of American Government and Civic Life (Grade 12), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 79 pages.

• The distinction between civil liberties and civil rights
• Selective incorporation as a case-by-case historical process
• The scrutiny-level decision procedure
• The scrutiny-level decision procedure
• Doctrinal tests that distinguish conflicting-outcome case pairs on the same right
• Classification-detection in equal protection fact patterns
• Institutional authority to resolve novel rights conflicts
• Steelmanning an opposing institutional-authority argument
• Due process and equal protection definitions

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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