Political Parties,

Yesterday,
Today

Political Quiz Terms

Corporate Welfare tax code that favors corporations or

government subsidies for certain businesses
National ID Card The idea is that every citizen would have an ID
card that says you are an American citizen. This would be a way
for the government to track peoples movements and protect
the national security.
Privatizing Social Security Instead of funding retirement through
government taxes, privatization would allow individuals to invest
those tax dollars on their own. This would include individual
accounts for individual workers, which would allow workers
leeway in making decisions about their investments. Detractors
warn against the risk of subjecting peoples retirement to severe
fluctuations in the market, adding that diverting funds into private
retirement accounts would leave current social security users
without money.
Free Trade Some barriers to free trade include government
subsidies, taxes, tariffs, regulatory legislation, and treaty
agreements. Free trade means that these barriers would be
removed. Some worry that other countries might not remove
their barriers, leaving American businesses and consumers at a
disadvantage

Political Quiz
How

do you stand?

Read each (Personal issues and Economic

Issues)
Place your results on the political chart

Complete

the ALTERNATE Version

Place your results on the political chart

Discussion

of differences

BIAS

Primary source
Secondary source
Why is it important to remember who created
the source?

Because all sources are biased by their

experiences

ANSWER: By identifying the characteristics of

the source and the context in which it was
written allows the reader to examine it
critically

Group/table questions
Who

produced the first quiz?

What sorts of issues does it include?
Exclude?
Did wording the statements differently
change your opinion of the issue or topic?
Why is the word choice and how a
question asked matter?
How can specific examples affect ones
general position on an issue?

FRAMING
POLITICAL PARTIES FRAME ARGUMENTS TO THEIR
ADVANTAGE
Endangered species argument

Environment for job

Environment for protecting the ecosystem

Immigration

Restrictions because of tax $ spent to

educate/health care
We all immigrants, more rules would be unfair

Washingtons Farewell Address

Read it silently
Read it again silently
Discuss with a partner the answer to the
question and take notes on your paper

NOTES
of

Washington feared parties

Constitution was agreed on but a division
parties

Emergence of Political Parties

Write a reflect response to the following
quote and questions
People tend to agree on constitutinal
principles and fundamental values in the
abstract, yet not see eye to eye on specific
issues
How does this statement relate to the
quizzes taken in this lesson?
Why do political parties frame issues?