American Government: A Christian Worldview – Teacher Resources and Downloads (Quick Access)

NOTE: Quizzes and tests are not included in this Quick Access page, since they differ based on the setting (Christian schools/homeschool co-ops) and scheduled number of weeks of the class.

Classroom Activities/Handouts

“What” vs. ”Why” Sorting Challenge • What’s Wrong With This Thinking? • “Based on What?” Challenge • Ultimate Priority • Two Purposes: Crime vs. Sin • To Punish or Not to Punish • Do They Agree? Quick Match Challenge • Harm or Not? Rapid-fire Challenge • Whose Job Is It? (Church or State?) • Build a Free Society • Obey or Refuse? Decision Line • Press Conference: Ask the Christian • Build a Government • Who Put Them There? • The Bible and the Rule of Law (Ancient Greece) • Renaissance Men • Build a Government Without Creating a Tyrant • Enlightenment Survivor • Circuit Rider Court • Horseback Justice • Suspend It or Not? (Habeas Corpus) • Save the Nation! Government Mix-up Game • Christian Persecution During The American Revolution • The Officeholder Test • Is This State a Nation? • Choose a Constitution! • Federalist or Antifederalist? • Hidden Consequences: Patrick Henry’s Warning • Antifederalist Alarm Bells • Constitution Translator • 30,000 or Bust! • “General Welfare” Sales Pitch • Execute or Refuse? • Let’s Fix the Supreme Court! • Pursuance or Pretend (The “Supremacy” Clause”) • Henry vs. Hamilton: A Founders Face-off (The Bill of Rights) • Newspaper Headline and Story Writing Activity (The Supreme Court) • Constitutional Dominoes (Bill of Rights “Incorporation”) • First Amendment Freedom Filter • Washington’s Warning (Free Speech) • Fourth Amendment Investigator • Search Warrant Showdown • The Fourth Amendment Evidence Dilemma • Sixth Amendment Survival Draft • Sixth Amendment Rescue Mission • Jury Duty – First Amendment Cases • Bail, Fines, and Punishment: Eighth Amendment Challenges • Presidential Power Audit • Which Amendment Was Violated? • Constitutional Loophole Lab • Washington and John Quincy Adams: Stay Out or Step In? • Selling Monster Hunts • Hamilton’s Handout Hustle • Fix the Court! • Operation Jury Nullification • Fighting Fraud or Foisting Favoritism? (The “Commerce Clause”) • Sam’s Neighborhood Disaster, Part II • Foreign Intervention/Sedition Act Children’s Story • The “Implied Powers” Domino Disaster • Tariff Spin Doctors • Presidential Promise Probe • Operation Peaceable Departure • Historical Spin Room • Reconstruction Repair Crew • Crazy Commerce Clause Conclusions • Step by Step: The Income Tax Takeover • States Steering Senators (Seventeenth Amendment) • Voicing Vehement Vetoes • The Lusitania Propaganda Pitch • Shouting “Fire!” and Speaking Truth • The Bureau of Things That Don’t Need a Bureau • Amendment Fairy Tale Parody • Exaction Extraction • Exaction Retraction • Government Through Early Christian Eyes • Founding Father War Tweets and Replies • Presidential Veto Challenge • Presidential Pardon Project • Chapter X for Five-Year-Olds • The Classroom Battlefield: School Prayer vs. Private Speech • PowerPoint Slides on So-Called “Emergencies,” Climate Change Panic, Etc. • HELP WANTED: Vice President • Create a Wasteful Government Program • Separation of Powers Showdown • Government Grab & Gaslight

Angel or Sinner? Too-Big, Too-Little Government: Part 1 • Part 2

BREAKING NEWS!: Drunk Driver Found Guilty • Governor Closes State • Education Articles

You’re the Judge!: Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments)

Founding a Free State: Part 1 • Part 2

Interpretation Showdown: Part 1 • Part 2

Snappy Answers to Government Questions: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12

Games

Crossword Puzzles: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 (Giant Cumulative Puzzle)

Short Film Links

Separation Between Church and State • Are We Rome Yet? • How a Free Republic Becomes a Tyrannical Empire • The British House of Commons • Why the Founders Did Not Want a Democracy • Why the Articles of Confederation Were Actually a Success • The Anti-federalists • What Does Article II Say About the Powers of the President? • The Popular Vote vs. the Electoral College • The Big-City Problem: The Electoral College • Thomas Jefferson on the General Welfare Clause • What the General Welfare Clause Actually Meant • The Incorporated Bill of Rights and Federalism • The Biden Administration, Facebook, and COVID-19 (Free Speech) • Hillary Clinton, Tim Walz, John Kerry, and “Misinformation” (Free Speech) • Pam Bondi and “Hate Speech” • Podcast: The Right to Own a Gun Isn’t Just for Americans • Politicians and the Second Amendment, Part 1 • Politicians and the Second Amendment, Part 2 • What Is the Exclusionary Rule? (Fourth Amendment) • Five Exceptions to the Exclusionary Rule (Fourth Amendment) • Little Pink House (Eminent Domain/Fifth Amendment) • When Pulled Over, Plead the Fifth • Pulled Over and Robbed: How Police Take Money from Innocent People • Ron Paul Explains the General Welfare Clause • Obamacare and the Tenth Amendment • Chisholm v. Georgia in a Nutshell • “Tenth Amendment. I Said, ‘The Tenth Amendment.'” • The Secretary of Education Contradicts Herself (Tenth Amendment) • Cruz, Holder Spar Over Potential Drone Strike on U.S. Soil • Woolsey Evades Question by Insulting Jan (Foreign Interventionism) • Rep. Thomas Massie Rips Republicans and Democrats on Spending • McCulloch v. Maryland: The Debate About Enumerated Powers • A Layman’s Guide to Jury Nullification • Nullification: Interview With a Zombie • Are Protective Tariffs Constitutional? • Is Secession Legal? • Ron Paul Right, Thought Controllers Wrong, on Secession • The Seventeenth Amendment • Founder of Big Government (Woodrow Wilson) • World War I and the League of Nations (Woodrow Wilson) • Forgotten History (Woodrow Wilson) • Second Term and Death (Woodrow Wilson) • Ron Paul: End the Fed • The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal • There Is No Role for the Government in Education • Second Amendment: To Prevent the Greatest Danger to Liberty • Jack Abramoff: The Lobbyist’s Playbook • Anthony Fauci & COVID-19 (Governments & “Emergencies”) • EMERGENCY! Ice Age/Greenhouse Effect Scare (1972, 1978, 1982)

Articles

“Democracy Is Not the Same Thing as Freedom” • “It Started With Plato” • “Did the Articles of Confederation Fail? Probably Not” • “The Prophetic Antifederalists” • “The Bill of Rights: The Only Good Part of the Constitution” • “The Second Amendment Has No Exceptions” • “The Fifth Amendment Protects Everyone, Not Just Citizens” • “The Tenth Amendment Is Always the Right Answer” • “Why Are There Still Any Foreign Interventionists?” • “America Has a Uniparty System” • “Opposing Imperialism Is Not Isolationism” • “The Consolidation of State Power via Reconstruction” • “The Federal Reserve Killed My Grandfather” • “The Fallacy of ‘Public’ Education” • “Dispatch the War Department” • “12 Myths Fueling Government Overreach During Crisis”

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