Lesson 1: Individual Rights at the State and Federal Level

Activity 1.5: Rights and Liberties Wiki

We all talk about our rights and liberties yet few of us ever sit down to discuss them intelligently. The time has come for you to participate in a wiki in an intelligent manner.

Now that you have analyzed the basic information of both the U.S. and Minnesota Constitutions, you will be engaging in a wiki discussion about each document’s guarantees of individual rights. In this lesson, your intelligent participation in the wiki discussion will help to create a deeper understanding of how each document supports individual rights.

Benchmark 9.1.3.4.1:

Analyze the meaning and importance of rights in the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments; compare and contrast these with rights in the Minnesota Constitution.

Learning Target:

I can...analyze the individual rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Minnesota Constitution.

Essential Question:

What individual rights are guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution, and how do these differ from rights guaranteed in the Minnesota Constitution?

To complete Activity 1.5 please follow the steps below:

STEP 1

Wikis are an interesting way to learn and discuss any topic. In this activity, you will be analyzing the individual rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution and how they differ from the rights guaranteed in the Minnesota Constitution. In the activity 1.4 you completed a compare and contrast of both documents. For this activity, you will use your recently gained knowledge to analyze how the guaranteed rights differ in both documents. After you post your responses, please continue the wiki discussion by adding and contributing to the responses of the other people.

STEP 2

WIKI TIME

Respond to the following questions using the Wiki module. After you post your responses, please continue the wiki discussion by adding and contributing to the responses of the other people.

1. Identify at least 5 individual rights that are guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
2. How are the 5 individual rights that you have identified in the U.S. Constitution presented and/or worded differently in the Minnesota Constitution?
3. In your own words, how are the individual rights that are guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution different from the rights guaranteed in Minnesota Constitution?