Does judicial review threaten democracy? Should Supreme Court Justices be elected? In this two-part debate, students have to address each of these questions.
Jigsaw activities have students work in groups to think about different articles. The groups then come together and share their work to produce one detailed, comprehensive document on all the articles for the week.
In this in-class activity, students use their knowledge of democracy to offer recommendations to Egypt as it undergoes its constitutional revision debate.
Is modern representative democracy "better" than ancient Athenian democracy? In this activity, students work together to mine the readings for evidence that will help them answer this question.
