Step 1: Describe how amendments have affected Americans' participation in government.

Give specific examples from the lesson, including amendment names or numbers.

Step 2:

Brainstorm an idea for a new amendment to the Constitution. Answer the following questions about your new amendment idea.

What will this amendment do?

Whom will it benefit and how?

Step 3:

Identify the process that your amendment will have to follow to become part of the Constitution. Some information appears for you.

Amendment Process: Two Main Steps
1: 2: Ratification
Method 1
Method 2 Two-thirds of state legislatures request a national convention
Step 4:

In your own words, answer the following questions about the amendment process.

Why did the Founding Fathers create an amendment process for the Constitution?

Why did they make the amendment process difficult to achieve?

What is the role of institutions in society - do they perform positive functions, or simply work in the interests of the powerful and against the powerless? (a related question here is why do our life chances vary by class, gender and ethnicity)

Read case #5 - "targeting target" (on pages 77-78 of your textbook), then answer the following questions: do you think it was ethical for authorities to use one of the high-ranking members to trap other gang members? why or why not? how would you approach the target situation? use the internet to research and find the best practices to protect from identity theft.

And whereas our provinces in north america, have been frequently ravaged by indian enemies, more especially that of south-carolina, which in the late war, by the neighboring savages, was laid waste with fire and sword and great numbers of english inhabitants, miserably massacred, and our loving subjects who now inhabit them, by reason of the smallness of their numbers, will in case of a new war, be exposed to the late calamities; inasmuch as their whole southern frontier continueth unsettled, and lieth open to the said savages. and whereas we think it highly becoming our crown and royal dignity, to protect all our loving subjects, be they ever so distant from us; to extend our fatherly compassion even to the meanest and most unfortunate of our people, and to relieve the wants of our above mentioned poor subjects; and that it will be highly conducive for accomplishing those ends, that a regular colony of the said poor people be settled and established in the southern territories of carolina."- from  charter of georgia, 1732 based on the passage, it can be determined that the main reason the king of england wishes to establish a new southern colony is becausea)he wants to provide a safe haven for all of his loyal british subject'sb)he wants to protect the fathers of each family in order to keep them safe.c)he wants to make sure there will be enough soldiers in the event of another war.d)he wants to use the new colony to protect the other colonies from attack