GRADE 11 SOCIAL STUDIES · CHAPTER 1
Communities, civics & government
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Civic institutions
Apply an invented institution's rules
Use an explicitly supplied institutional charter to distinguish authority, implementation and accountability without importing a real jurisdiction's law.
Civics
Recognize selected federal checks and balances
Distinguish a branch’s ordinary role from a power that checks another branch in a simplified constitutional example.
AN EXAMPLE FROM THIS CHAPTER
An invented charter says the council approves budgets and the manager spends only approved funds. Who has the stated budget-approval role?
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The council
The charter explicitly assigns approval to the council.
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