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Healthcare and the Bill of Rights

In March of 2010, Congress passed landmark legislation including major reforms to the U.S. health insurance industry and healthcare system. This lesson plan focuses on the healthcare law from multiple constitutional perspectives. Have students use … See more

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Is the Healthcare Act Constitutional

WEBQuestions to consider. How did a U.S. District Court recently rule on a constitutional challenge to the Affordable Health Care Act brought by four Michigan residents?

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The Healthcare Act, Federal Power, and the Commerce Clause

WEBRecently, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the entire Affordable Health Care Act was unconstitutional because of the individual mandate clause. The suit, …

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Compulsory Vaccines: Personal Liberty Violation or Public Health

WEBIn recent weeks, a measles outbreak in parts of the U.S. has led to a renewed discussion on vaccinations and their impacts on society. Some have called for certain vaccines to be …

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Jane Addams, Hull House, and Immigration

WEBHull House became a central gathering place and allowed reformer Jane Addams to help many immigrants in its Chicago neighborhood. Founded in 1889, Hull House soon …

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Was the Great Society Successful

WEBClaim A. In his 1964 State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson declared a “war on poverty” as one of the foundation stones in building the United States into “the Great …

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Health Care and the Supreme Court

WEBThis week the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in the Department of Health and Human Services v. State of Florida, et. al. (2012) case. The case will decide the …

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The Purpose of Government

WEBThe Purpose of Government. Securing fundamental individual rights, as well as the rights of the people as a whole to govern themselves through consent is the principal object of …

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Religious Freedom and the Affordable Care Act

WEBHHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius believed that the finalized rules struck the “appropriate balance between respecting religious freedom and increasing access to important …

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What is a Federal Republic

WEBDivide students into groups of four and have them read Handout C: Article I, Sections 8, 9, 10 of the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment.; Have students complete Handout B: …

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The Lowell Girls

WEBWhen management proposed rent increases for those living in company boarding houses, female textile workers in Lowell responded in 1836 by forming the Lowell Factory Girls …

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Alice Paul and the Struggle for Women’s Suffrage

WEBAlice Paul provided a new voice and new energy in the struggle. Alice Paul, pictured here in 1915, fought for women’s suffrage and rights and helped bring about change through …

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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022)

WEBIt determined that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause conferred the right to privacy, which encompassed the right to an abortion. Nearly fifty years later, the Court …

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Rachel Carson and Silent Spring

WEBOne of the most profound effects of Carson’s book was that it showed how human actions were responsible for altering the planet. In the 1960s, this was a radical idea that gained …

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Dr. Benjamin Spock and the Baby Boom

WEBThe high rate of marriages in the postwar period set the stage for the baby boom. By the mid-1950s, women, on average, were marrying at age 20 and men at age 22, and by …

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Was Prohibition a Success or a Failure

WEBTo understand why prohibition was a success, it is important to realize that prior to national prohibition, levels of drinking had been climbing steadily for decades. From 1870 to …

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Franklin Roosevelt, Second Bill of Rights, 1944

WEBThree years into the war, Roosevelt chose to reassert the necessity of winning the economic war on poverty at home just as fascism had to be conquered in Europe. To …

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William “Boss” Tweed and Political Machines

WEBWilliam Tweed, the “boss” of Tammany Hall, played a major role in New York City politics during the mid-1800s. By the late 1850s, Tweed had ascended through a variety of local …

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The Spanish Flu of 1919

WEBOne disease – influenza or “the flu” – still flares periodically, but in 1918 it really was a plague, a raging pandemic called the Spanish flu that killed tens of millions worldwide in …

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