Bill of Rights (post 9.11)

You will be working in a four person cooperative group.  For part of the 
time you will be exploring differing opinions on the current status of our 
Bill of Rights. Working with one other “opinion partner” in your group, you 
will be asigned either the “Civic Defender”(pro-restrictions) or the “Civil 
Libertarian” (con-restrictions) viewpoint to study and defend.  When your 
cooperative group reassembles, you  will be responsible to present 
arguments for your point of view.

Your final goal as a group is to create a graphic organizer of the differing 
opinions and supporting facts. You will then be able to take a print out of 
this list to have on hand as you write your opinion letter to the 
StarTribune.

Step One:
Your first step will be to reread the Bill of Rights. You can read the Bill 
of Rights in your text book or at:
House OKs counter-terrorism bill; Bush could sign measure 
as soon as Friday, 
James Kuhnhenn, Knight Ridder Newspapers, October 24, 2001

The USA PATRIOT Act seems to conflict with what sections of the Bill of 
Rights?  Write a comparison by pairing the specific wording in the Bill of 
Rights with comparable components of the PATRIOT ACT.

Step Two:
Move to your assigned positions to find out more about the controversy 
surrounding the Bill of Rights (post 9.11).
Process
