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Unit 5, Lesson 6 Presidential Accountability

Essential Questions: How do court decisions impact the lives of citizens? Learning Target: IWBAT analyze the significance of United States v Nixon and Bush v Gore Formative Assessment(s): What precedents were set in Nixon and Bush? . Homework: Vocabulary

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Unit 5, Lesson 6 Presidential Accountability

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  1. Essential Questions: How do court decisions impact the lives of citizens? • Learning Target: IWBAT analyze the significance of United States v Nixon and Bush v Gore • Formative Assessment(s): What precedents were set in Nixon and Bush? Homework: Vocabulary • Daily Rubric: 4 – I fully understand the learning target and I am ready to move on • 3 – I feel like I have a good understanding of the learning target but I need to cover it a little more • 2 – I feel kind of lost on the learning target and I need a lot of review before I can move on • 1 – I am completely lost and feel like I need to completely cover this learning target over Unit 5, Lesson 6Presidential Accountability

  2. US v. Nixon Court Decision What was the decision of the Supreme Court regarding the president’s “executive privilege”? Preview

  3. Chad: • Hanging chad: • Watergate scandal: • Executive privilege: • Electoral College: • Recount: Vocabulary

  4. Chad: A piece of waste material removed from card or tape by punching. • Hanging chad: a chad that is incompletely removed and hanging by one corner. • Watergate scandal: a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon • Executive privilege: The privilege claimed by the president of withholding information from Congress or the courts. • Electoral College: The group of electors that casts the official votes that elect the president and vice president. • Recount: Count again. Vocabulary

  5. Bush v Gore: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CI2U79ykgA • US v Nixon: http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1974/1974_73_1766 • List the background, constitutional issue, and decision made in both of these court cases Activity

  6. What precedents were set in Nixon and Bush? Formative Assessment

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