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Applying Rights & Liberties

Expanding Protections

9-12
One class period
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Learning Objectives

  • Explain several ways rights are expanded to groups of people
  • Identify examples of how rights have been expanded to other groups of people
  • Explain the Equal Protection Clause of the 
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Identify court cases that have expanded rights through the Equal Protection Clause 
  • Analyze a fictional scenario to determine the best course of action for expanding rights
     
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Overview

How are civil rights and liberties extended to more people and groups over time? In this lesson, students explore the various ways that civil rights and liberties can be expanded. Students also learn how the expansion of rights is based on the values embedded in our founding documents.

 

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