Summer Packet - Ladue School District

-3-29. What is the purpose/consequence of Article VI?30. What is described in Article VII?Section C – Amendments to the US Constitution1. List 6 liberties protected by the First Amendment.2. What does the Second Amendment do?3. What is protected by the Third Amendment?4. What is protected by the Fourth Amendment?5. List 5 protections of the Fifth Amendment (ignore the military clauses).6. What rights are protected by the Sixth Amendment?7. What right is protected by the Seventh Amendment?8. What are two protections of the Eighth Amendment?9. What does the Ninth Amendment do?10. What does the Tenth Amendment do?11. The Eleventh Amendment deals with “sovereign immunity.” What does this mean?12. What did the Twelfth Amendment do? What happens if there is no majority?13. What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?14. Focus on Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment – some scholars think this is the mostimportant language in the whole Constitution.(a) What is the purpose of the first sentence?(b) What are privileges and immunities?(c) What does due process protect?(d) What does equal protection protect?15. What does the Fifteenth Amendment guarantee?16. What did the Sixteenth Amendment create?17. What did the Seventeenth Amendment change? How so?18. What did the Eighteenth Amendment create?19. What did the Nineteenth Amendment do?

-5-Section E – Elections. For each of the following elections, give the name of the winner, his party,the opponent(s) and their party. You may want to create a table to help organize thisinformation.1. 19322. 19483. 19524. 19605. 19686. 19727. 19768. 19809. 198410. 198811. 199212. 199613. 200014. 200415. 2008Section G – American Political Culture.It is important for students to have an awareness of elements of our nation’s political culture.Perform each of the following tasks:1. Identify and describe the ideologies of conservatism and liberalism.2. How do conservatives typically view the issue of taxation? How do liberals’ views on taxationtypically differ from the views of conservatives?3. Public opinion polls are important in modern American politics. Find data from a political publicopinion poll taken after June 1, 2011. What does this poll data tell us about American’s beliefs?4. What are demographics? Describe why each of the following is an important demographic inAmerican politics: age, race, income, education, and region.