A.P. U.S. Government and Comparative Government

Students finished reading/analyzing/explicating and explaining the salient points of Madison's Federalist 10 (in contrast to the Anti-Federalist paper "Brutus 1"). A copy of Federalist 10 with numbered paragraphs is now posted on my AP U.S. Government web page. If they finished Fed 10,students began reading/analyzing/ and taking notes on the following clauses in the U.S. Constitution: taxing clause, supremacy clause, necessary and proper clause (A.K.A. the "elastic clause"), and the 9th and 10th amendments. Federalist 10 and the aforementioned clauses and amendments will be used to support the argument/counter-argument FRQ. If time permitted, students began explicating Brutus 1.

Review your notes on Federalist 10, three theories of democracy, and the Federalist and Anti-Federalist views on the role of the central government.