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Fifth Grade Home School Field Trip Assignment

Today we will learn the important of civics and how the Constitution protects your rights. You will learn that if you do not know your rights, you will not have any rights. You will also learn if leaders in your community  have learned these lessons.

 

Assignment: Go to your neighborhood business’s when shopping with your parents, or mail 10 letters to businesses (with cover letter and SASE) asking  if the manager will assist you with your homework. They only need to answer the true / false questions.  Each completed questionnaire will be worth 10 points,  each completed questionnaire with all correct answers will be given an additional 5 points. It is an open book test and managers can look up the answers up if they choose. 

 

Date _____                                  Home School Field Trip Assignment                        ___________ Class/Period

                                                                                  _____________________ Student Name

                                                                                                                                _____________________Name of Store

                                                                                                ___________________________ Name of Manager

 

  1. The general process for making a bill into a law is described in the Constitution.[1]         True / False
  2. A bill must pass both houses of Congress by a majority vote.                                           True/False
  3. The Bill must be signed by the President                                                                           True/False
  4. The law is published in the United States Statutes at Large.                                              True/False
  5. A law repugnant to the Constitution is void.  An act of Congress repugnant to the Constitution cannot become a law.  The Constitution supersedes all other lawsand the individual’s rights shall be liberally enforced in favor of him, the clearly intended and expressly designated beneficiary.” –Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)[2]                                                                                                                                              True/False
  6. “An unconstitutional law is void and is as no law.  An offense created by it is not crime.  A conviction under it is not merely erroneous but is illegal and void and cannot be used as a legal cause of imprisonment.” – Ex parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371 (1879)                                                                                      True/False
  7. “An unconstitutional act is not law.  It confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office.  It is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed.” – Norton v. Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425 (1886)                                                                                                  True/False
  8. “Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule-making or legislation which would abrogate them.”–Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966)                                      True/False

  

  1. “No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law, and no courts are bound to enforce it.  The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, whether federal or state,though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void and ineffective for any purpose, since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it.  AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAW, in legal contemplation, IS AS INOPERATIVE AS IF IT HAD NEVER BEEN PASSED.“ – 16 American Jurisprudence 2d, Sec. 25                                                                                                                                     True/False
  1. Do governors have inherent power in an emergency to craft regulations that carry the force of law? [3]                                                                                                                                                   True/False
  2. The Guarantee Clause of the Constitution mandates a republican (lowercase “r”) form of government in the states.                                                                                                                                       True/False
  3. The Governor has  the authority to issue a mandate which overrides rights guaranteed by the state constitution and US Constitution.                                                                                                                       True/False                                                                                                              
  4. Mandates are never laws, only guidelines, as well as codes and statute, etc.                       True/False
  5. Masks are proven safe and effective against the spread of a virus[4].                                    True/False
  6. Masks have been proven to be detrimental to the well being of healthy people.[5]                 True/False
  7. In order to legally enforce a mask requirement these procedures must be followed:
    • An examination by a physician providing a report that the person is contagious
    • That report needs to be taken to the local county board of health who;
    • Takes it to a court which will issue a court order requiring a mask.                                 True/False       

Thank you for your participation!

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[1] https://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_law.html

[2] https://patriots4truth.org/2018/03/27/all-laws-must-comply-with-the-constitution-or-they-are-void/

[3] https://www.richardcyoung.com/politics/trump-administration/coronavirus/do-governors-have-the-right-to-make-and-enforce-laws/

 [4] https://yournews.com/2020/07/24/1745666/new-cdc-and-who-study-proves-no-evidence-face-masks/

[5] https://www.technocracy.news/masks-are-neither-effective-nor-safe-a-summary-of-the-science/

 

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Answer Key – Only 10,12,and 14 are false.