Civics and Economics Unit Seven: Lessons 21-24

The Executive and Legislative Institutions of Government: How Laws are Created
and Enforced in the U.S.

Date Assignments
Monday, Nov. 20 Due: 1. Read Lesson 21, pages 144-147, answer qu. 1-2.
2. Then read how do members of Congress serve their
constituents? on pp. 149-150 and answer question 3.
Tuesday, Nov. 21 Due: Read Lesson 21, pages 148-149 and answer qu. 4-5.
This is a short but very important section.

Monday, Nov. 27 Due: Read Lesson 22, pp. 152-154 and complete questions
1-3.
Tuesday, Nov. 28 Due: Read Lesson 22, pp. 154-156, 158-160 and complete
questions 4-6
Wednesday, Nov. 29 Due: Read Lesson 23. Answer questions 1-4
Thursday, Nov. 30 Due: Lesson 23, reading questions 5-7
Friday, Dec. 1 Due: Read Lesson 24, pp 172-174, answer questions 1-3
Monday, Dec. 4 Due: Lesson 24, pp 175-176, answer question 4
Tuesday, Dec. 5 Review for the Test
Wednesday, Dec. 6 Test: Lessons 21-24

READING QUESTIONS:

Lesson 21
1. Write 3-4 bullet points of overarching differences between a Congress and a Parliament.
2. Drawing upon the content on pages 146-147, make a two-column chart which lists at
least FOUR limitations on Congress power and FOUR Congressional powers. Leave room
for additions youll make in your small groups and in large group discussion.
3. Summarize the three strategies members of Congress use to connect with their
constituents (people they represent).
4. Write down at least four points about districting (bullet points are fine).
5. Which theory of representation is the most practical for members of Congress to use?
Explain.

Lesson 22
1. What happens in Congressional committees?
2. Make a chart that lists the rules of the House and the Senate. Leave space for later
additions.
3. Summarize the three forms of leadership in the House and take notes on leadership in the
Senate.
4. Begin committing to memory the process of a bill becoming a law.
5. Explain the role of the sources used by Congress in making laws. Take especially good
notes on the role of interest groups.
6. List several ways Congress has used its inherent power to investigate.

Lesson 23
1. What are the presidents constitutional responsibilities? List several powers.
2. How did the Framers envision the presidency? List several of their ideas.
3. Read and think about how Jackson, Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt shaped the
presidency. Well be talking about this in class.
4. What is the presidents role in foreign policy? List and explain the 4 powers.
5. How do the presidents powers expand in war and emergency?
6. Explain the five reasons for the increase in presidential power.
7. How are presidential powers limited? List the limits placed by Congress and the Court.

Lesson 24
1. Summarize the three organizations within the Executive Branch. Then, study the chart on
page 172. Get a sense of when the executive departments formed. Especially take note of the
first and last departments to form.
2. Explain how the IRS and the Sixteenth Amendment are related.
3. Summarize the Administrative Procedure Act.
4. Summarize the limitations placed on agencies by the president, Congress, the courts,
federalism, and citizens. Bullet points are fine.

TERMS TO KNOW: I strongly recommend making flash cards with the definitions for each
term.

1. gerrymandering 2. enumerated powers 3. enforcement powers

4. trustee theory of 5. Delegate theory of 6. casework
representation representation
7. cloture 8. Filibuster 9. lobbying
10. pocket veto 11. civil service 12. Bureaucracy
13. cabinet 14. patronage 15. quasi-judicial powers
16. quasi-legislative powers