Individual Rights and The Common Good

Learning Target

• I can explain the balance between Individual Rights and Common Good.

Balance• It is the job of our government and

society to find a balance between individual rights and the common good.

Individual Rights•Powers and privileges to

which one has a just claim.– Life– Liberty– Property

Common Good• Something for the benefit

for all members of a given community.

Balance

You can’t have everything all of the

time.

Balance• Sometimes Individual Rights are

exchanged for the protections provided by society or government (Common Good).

Driving

In Schools

Japanese-American Internment

What’s your position?

Essential Question:Was President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066,

which resulted in the Internment of over 120,000 Japanese Americans, constitutional or unconstitutional?

I can express my position on Executive Order 9066.

I can take a position on Executive Order 9066 that considers the both Individual Rights and the Common Good AND includes a call to action.

1.Answers the essential question

2.Connects to the balance of Individual Rights and Common Good

3.Provides a call to action

1. Answers the essential question

President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 was constitutional.

1. Answers the essential question

President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 was unconstitutional.

2. Connects to the balance of Individual Rights and Common Good (include citation)

Even though some American citizens’ individual rights were violated President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 was constitutional because it promoted the constitutional principle of “life” (Amendment 5) for the common good.

2. Connects to the balance of Individual Rights and Common Good (include citation)

Although the U.S. Government was providing for the common good President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 was unconstitutional because it violated the Japanese-Americans’ individual right to “life” and “liberty” (Amendment 5).

3.Provides a call to action

Therefore, our society should always be willing to exchange individual rights in order to promote the common good.

3.Provides a call to action

Therefore, our society should not be preoccupied with promoting the common good to the extent of diminishing individual rights.

Even though some American citizens’ individual rights were violated President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 was constitutional because it promoted the constitutional principle of “life” (Amendment 5) for the common good. Therefore, our society should always be willing to exchange individual rights in order to promote the common good.

Although the U.S. Government was providing for the common good President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 was unconstitutional because it violated the Japanese-Americans’ individual right to “life” and “liberty” (Amendment 5). Therefore, our society should not be preoccupied with promoting the common good to the extent of diminishing individual rights.