Lessons
Grades 7-9

These lessons help students understand:

• judicial independence/judicial accountability (for background see What Is Judicial Independence?); *
• the right to counsel;
• the First Amendment;
• First Amendment: residential property signs; *
• how laws regulate who may vote;
• expansion of the right to vote; *
• equal protection of the law;
• drug testing in schools;*
• due process freedoms; and
• juvenile justice

Note: Lessons with * are also appropriate for students in grades 10-12.

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