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Do Now – Friday, Oct. 4

Update your Binder’s Table of Contents with today’s date and key question Take out your Take Home Tests Respond to this question: What does it mean to “keep someone in check?” What does it mean to “balance something out?”. Do Now – Friday, Oct. 4.

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Do Now – Friday, Oct. 4

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  1. Update your Binder’s Table of Contents with today’s date and key question • Take out your Take Home Tests • Respond to this question: • What does it mean to “keep someone in check?” • What does it mean to “balance something out?” Do Now – Friday, Oct. 4

  2. Checks and balances- a system in which each of the three branches of government limits the powers of the others so that no one branch becomes too powerful. New Vocabulary

  3. James Madison, the author of the Constitution, had this to say about human nature: • The great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others… Ambition must be made to counteract ambition… • How does the Constitution reflect Madison’s idea that “ambition must be made to counteract ambition?” Exit Ticket – Friday, Oct. 4

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