What is The difference between a subject and a citizen?
What is the difference between a subject and a citizen? Why did the Americans write the Declaration of Independence? What rights are outlined in the document? Why are they called inalienable?
- How do the Constitution and Bill of Rights protect liberty? Why was it important to the Framers to protect liberty with these documents?
- Why are the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment important?
- What is incorporation? What effect did it have on the Bill of Rights? Why might it be considered a contentious issue?
- In what ways can you be an active civic participant?
- Review the excerpts of the Declaration of Independence grievances. Select the MOST significant grievance and provide an argument for why it was the most significant grievance and helped lay the foundation of American democracy.
- Define the following Constitutional Clauses and note where each of the clauses is located in the US Constitution (click here for the US Constitution):
| Full Faith & Credit Clause |
| Commerce Clause |
| Supremacy Clause |
| Necessary and Proper Clause |
| Establishment Clause |
| Free-exercise Clause |
| Free-speech Clause |
| Due Process Clause |
