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New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
Enacting of a Law 
This site from the Library of Congress provides detailed information on how a bill becomes a law.
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Social Studies: Civics and Government
Curriculum Standard 1
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the purpose of government and how government is established and organized.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:
- Describe the major things governments do in their school, community, state, and nation including making school rules; building and maintaining highways; establishing courts of law; and providing for the defense of the nation.
- Describe, by using examples, government in terms of the people and institutions that make, apply, and enforce rules and laws including the resolution of disputes about rules and laws.
- Identify and apply criteria for evaluating the effectiveness and fairness of rules and laws in the classroom, school, and community.
- Explain that the basic purposes of government in the United States are to protect the inalienable rights of individuals and to promote the common good.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Evaluate, take, and defend positions on the purposes government should serve and why government and politics are necessary.
- Compare power and authority and explain that, in the United States, civil authority comes from custom, law, and the consent of the governed.
- Describe the major forms of limited and unlimited governments including monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, authoritarian, and totalitarian.
- Discuss why limiting the powers of government is essential to the protection of individual rights.
- Analyze the major arguments for and against representative government as distinguished from direct democracy, and discuss why, in a representative democracy, decisions are made by the majority with minority rights protected.
Curriculum Standard 2
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental ideals and principles of American democracy; the major provisions of the United States and New Hampshire Constitutions; and the organization and operation of government at all levels including the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Describe the legislative and political processes by which a bill becomes a law or a governmental policy is established at the state and federal levels.
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