NCJ Number
73702
Date Published
1978
Length
43 pages
Annotation
The instructor's manual, which offers supplementary materials complementing the student text and providing a complete teaching program for constitutional law, is presented.
Abstract
The work is intended for use in conjunction with the student edition. Both law students and college criminal justice students are included in the parent work's intended audience. The instructor's manual contains a summary of the basic points of each chapter in the text, which the instructor should find useful in preparing classroom lectures or in discussing that topic area. In addition, comprehensive questions and answers on the subject matter of each chapter are supplied following the chapter summary. Since the student text already provides questions and answers for self-testing, the materials in the manual can be used for regular course testing. Topics include the powers of the Federal Government, the Federal system, regulation and taxation of commerce, and the protection of individual liberties. The Constitution, which is the basis of all Federal powers, separates powers of national government into the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Although governmental power is distributed between Federal and State governments with regard to internal affairs, the Federal Government alone has power over external affairs. Divided powers may be classified as those given exclusively to the Federal Government, such as laying duties on imports; those reserved exclusively for the States; those concurrent powers which both Federal and State government exercise in which the Federal power is supreme; those denied the Federal Government; and those denied the States. Intergovernmental relations may be strained at times, and the scope of powers may conflict. When this happens, lawsuits between the Federal Government and the States or between two States may result. The protections and rights afforded to individuals against the abusive exercise of governmental power are found primarily in the amendments to the Constitution. These rights include freedom of speech, right to due process, and freedom of religion.