Review Which laws are positive and which laws are negative Positive Right require action or initiative to ensure that your right is protected they are rules that require the state to provide individuals with a benefit ID: 642596
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Codifying Rules and LawsSlide2
Review
Which laws are positive and which laws are negative?
Positive Right
require
action or initiative to ensure that your right is protected; they are rules that require the state to provide individuals with a benefit.
Negative Right
prevent a person from doing something that would deprive another person of a right; they are rules that keep the state from depriving individuals of a liberty. Slide3
Discussion
Does it make a difference whether or not your school rules are written down? Why? What else could happen if the rules are not written down?
Does it make a difference whether rules – meaning, laws – for the state or nation are written down? Why would could happen if those rules are not written down
Who writes the laws for the state? Who writes the laws for the nation?
Does it matter who has the power to make the laws? Why or why not?Slide4
Legislative Branch
Makes Laws
Who are the lawmakers in our state?
Sal
DiDomenico
(senate)
Eugene O’Flaherty (house)
Kathi
-Anne
Reinstein
(house)
Who represents us in Congress?
Michael E. Capuano (US House)
Elizabeth Warren (Senate)
Ed Markey (Senate)Slide5
Handout 12
Read the Truancy Statute and then answer…
To Whom does the law apply?
What action is forbidden?
Under what circumstances (or when) is the law applied?Slide6
Questions to Consider
Who do you think wrote this law?
What reasons do you think the law makers might have had for making this law?
What values do you see imbedded in this law?
Does the law place great value on individual freedoms or the good of the community? Why?
Does this law give you or other student power, or take power away from you ? Why do you think so?Slide7
Handout 13
Read your code
Analyze the code using
handout
13
If time share out with classSlide8
Homework
Finish any of handout 16
Handout 11