Thursday 10/31/13

AGENDA

Critical Thinker Training

Productivity Increasing Minute

Tragedy of the Commons

Public Policy Posters Different Types of

Rights Notes

HOMEWORK

When is it a good time to limit someone’s rights for the good of the community?

Write a paragraph giving an example of when it is a good time to limit someone’ s individual rights for the benefit of the community.

Civics and Economics Day 48

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Critical Thinker Training

Productivity IncreasingMinute

Tragedy of the CommonsImagine that a village had

a pasture for cows to graze in. There is enough grass for every farmer to feed two cows but will disappear if everyone had more thanthose two cows.

What would happen if one farmer decided to have an additional cow?

What would happen if all the farmers decided to have an additional cow?

What would happen to the village if they didn’t have cows!?How does this show how individual interests conflict with the

common good?

Tragedy of the Commons

Group Activity

Pick an issue of Public Policy/Public Interests.

Make a Venn Diagram with the following categories.Personal InterestsPublic Interests

The overlap is where Public Policy begins.

Write a Paragraph at the bottom talking about how government gets involved.

Public Policy

Public policy is an attempt by a government to address a public issue by instituting laws, regulations, decisions, or actions pertinent to the problem at hand.

Public Policy Examples

AbortionAffirmative ActionAlcoholismAnimal RightsBullyingChinaCloningEducationGlobal WarmingGun ControlZombies (Disaster

Preparedness)Etc………

PersonalPublic

Government uses this!

Different Types of Rights

Personal Rights

The rights that a person has over their own self. These rights are distinguished from political rights, e.g., the right to privacy or the right to freedom of conscience as distinguished from the political right to peaceably assemble and petition for a redress of grievances

Political Rights

The rights that involve participation in the establishment or administration of a government and are usually entitle the adult citizen to the exercise of the franchise, the holding of public office, and other political activities. Permission to participate in an organized civic function that elects officials to govern and carry out the will of the social order.

Economic Rights

The rights of an individual to make a business, acquire, own, use, transfer, and dispose of property, participate in voluntary exchange, enter into lawful contracts and the right of competition.

Civil Rights

The rights belonging to an individual by virtue of citizenship, especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and by subsequent acts of Congress, including civil liberties, due process, equal protection of the laws, and freedom from discrimination. These are the rights of the individual citizen to have equal treatment and equal opportunities.

Scope and limits of a right

Extent or range of a person’s rights and the point or level beyond which those rights do not or may not extend or pass.

Rights can be limited and often should be limited.

Homework

When is it a good time to limit someone’s rights for the good of the community?

Write a paragraph giving an example of when it is a good time to limit someone’ s individual rights for the benefit of the community.