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HSS-PoAD.12.1.4 (History–Social Science)


Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.1.4
Content Area: History–Social Science
Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.1 Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

Standard:
Explain how the Founding Fathers’ realistic view of human nature led directly to the establishment of a constitutional system that limited the power of the governors and the governed as articulated in the Federalist Papers.

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