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HSS-PoAD.12.5 Students summarize landmark U.S. Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution and its amendments.

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Evaluate the effects of the Court’s interpretations of the Constitution in Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, and United States v. Nixon, with emphasis on the arguments espoused by each side in these cases.

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HSS-PoAD.12.5 Students summarize landmark U.S. Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution and its amendments.

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Explain the controversies that have resulted over changing interpretations of civil rights, including those in Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, and United States v. Virginia (VMI).

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Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

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HSS-PoAD.12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

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Analyze the origin, development, and role of political parties, noting those occasional periods in which there was only one major party or were more than two major parties.

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HSS-PoAD.12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

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Discuss the history of the nomination process for presidential candidates and the increasing importance of primaries in general elections.

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HSS-PoAD.12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

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Evaluate the roles of polls, campaign advertising, and the controversies over campaign funding.

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HSS-PoAD.12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

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Describe the means that citizens use to participate in the political process (e.g., voting, campaigning, lobbying, filing a legal challenge, demonstrating, petitioning, picketing, running for political office).

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HSS-PoAD.12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

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Discuss the features of direct democracy in numerous states (e.g., the process of referendums, recall elections).

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HSS-PoAD.12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

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Analyze trends in voter turnout; the causes and effects of reapportionment and redistricting, with special attention to spatial districting and the rights of minorities; and the function of the Electoral College.

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Students analyze and compare the powers and procedures of the national, state, tribal, and local governments.