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Project Directions: You need to locate five news articles that illustrate constitutional principles. The principles include separation of powers, federalism, checks and balances, popular sovereignty and flexibility as illustrated through the amendments.
· Two of the articles should illustrate TWO different principles such as separation of powers, federalism, checks and balances and/or popular sovereignty
· Two of the articles should illustrate TWO different amendments from the Bill of Rights (Amendments 1- 10)
· One article should illustrate an amendment from the remaining amendments (Amendments 11 - 27)
Either
print from the internet or cut out the article from the newspaper.
Be sure to keep track of your sources and include them in proper MLA
format in a bibliography.
Use
either a word processing program or hand write a short summary of the article in
two to three sentences. Provide a clear definition of the constitutional principle or
amendment that is illustrated in the article.
Write an in-depth analysis that explains how the principle or amendment
is illustrated. For example, if the
article mentions that the President suggested a particular program then fully
explain how a bill becomes a law and address which part of the process is
illustrated in the news article.
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