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Louisiana Studies, 8th Grade Social Studies Strand: Civics (Citizenship and Government) Standard: Students develop an understanding of the structure and purposes of government, the foundations of the American democratic system, and the role of the United States in the world, while learning about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. A. Structure and Purposes of Government Benchmark: C-1A-M5 describing the organization and major responsibilities of local, state, and national governments; (1, 3, 5) GLE 20. Identify the structure and powers of the three branches of the state government, the limits of those powers, and key positions within each branch (C-1A-M5)
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Bellringer: Explain, in your own words, the meaning of the following quote from Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws (XI, Ch. 6): "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." (Five sentence paragraph response)
Sources on Louisiana Politics
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