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Grades 4-6

These lessons help upper elementary students understand:

contracts**
functions of the judicial branch and the judicial review process
Separation of Powers: Legislators, Police Officers, and Judges;
the First Amendment;
how citizens influence public policy;
equal protection of the law;
due process freedoms; and
mediation and the adversary process.

Also see the elementary teaching unit Laws, Rights, and Responsibilities, available from the American Lawyers Auxiliary.

** Lesson also appropriate for students in grades k-3.

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