Key Constitutional and Political Document Excerpts: Analysis and Importance
Delve into primary source excerpts from key constitutional and political documents such as the US Constitution and War Powers Resolution Act. Analyze the context, main points, and significance of each passage to grasp their impact on governance and citizenship rights.
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Unit 5 Primary Source Readings By:
Instructions: For each slide, please complete a CPS strategy analysis of the document. C - Context: What is this about? P - Point: What are they saying? What s the point? S - Significance: Why is what they are saying important?
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States. - Article II, US Constitution C - Context: What is this about? P - Point: What are they saying? What s the point? S - Significance: Why is what they are saying important?
Qualifications. No person shall be eligible for election to the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor unless, at the time of his election, he shall have attained the age of 30 years and shall have been a citizen of the United States for five years and a resident of this State for two years immediately preceding his election. No person elected to the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor shall be eligible for election to more than two consecutive terms of the same office. - Article III, NC Constitution C - Context: What is this about? P - Point: What are they saying? What s the point? S - Significance: Why is what they are saying important?
The acceptance of, and continuance hitherto in, the office to which your suffrages have twice called me have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire. I constantly hoped that it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with motives which I was not at liberty to disregard, to return to that retirement from which I had been reluctantly drawn. - George Washington s Farewell Address, 1796 C - Context: What is this about? P - Point: What are they saying? What s the point? S - Significance: Why is what they are saying important?
Whenever United States Armed Forces are introduced into hostilities or into any situation described in subsection (a) of this section, the President shall, so long as such armed forces continue to be engaged in such hostilities or situation, report to the Congress periodically on the status of such hostilities or situation as well as on the scope and duration of such hostilities or situation, but in no event shall he report to the Congress less often than once every six months. - War Powers Resolution Act C - Context: What is this about? P - Point: What are they saying? What s the point? S - Significance: Why is what they are saying important?
Donald Trump has fired a lot of people in his life, but no dismissal is as shocking or has such widespread implications as his termination of FBI Director James Comey. The move made Trump only the second president in US history to fire his FBI director. Comey was leading the investigation into whether Trump campaign members colluded with Russians who hacked the 2016 election. The Trump administration said it was getting rid of Comey because of the way he handled the Hillary Clinton email probe. - CNN C - Context: What is this about? P - Point: What are they saying? What s the point? S - Significance: Why is what they are saying important?
Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as the 114th Supreme Court justice in a private ceremony Saturday just hours after the Senate voted to confirm him, solidifying conservative control of the highest court in the land for years to come and ending a bitter battle over his nomination. - USA Today C - Context: What is this about? P - Point: What are they saying? What s the point? S - Significance: Why is what they are saying important?
People of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead - they call us. - Barack Obama, 2016 State of the Union Address C - Context: What is this about? P - Point: What are they saying? What s the point? S - Significance: Why is what they are saying important?
