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. Next, students continued 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.

1) DOWNLOAD and PRINT Brutus 1 from my U.S. GOV web page. Bring this to class Tuesday, 9-3-19. You need not read it, unless you wish to. We will begin explicating it in class on Tuesday.

2) DOWNLOAD and PRINT two copies of the "Candidate Profile Form for the Democratic Primary". Complete each form for each of the candidates you choose. Though not required, you'd probably want to choose two of the following candidates as they are the only ones in the September debates: