This assignment will be to write an opinion paper on civil liberties. Your paper should be 2-3 handwritten pages if turned in during class or 1-2 typewritten pages if placed in the drop box. Your paper will answer the following questions: What if you could only have one of the studied civil liberties? Which one would you choose and why? How would having that civil liberty but no others affect your life? The project should be turned into the drop box no later than Week 2 Saturday at noon.
Scoring Rubric
STUDENT ___________________________
POINTS AVAILABLE DESCRIPTION POINTS ASSIGNED
20 A. Final Product
• Is your finished product polished and well presented?
• Does the paper flow well and read easily?
60 B. Content
• Did the paper choose one civil liberty to keep and why?
• Did the paper explain the effects of losing other civil liberties?
20 C. Mechanics
• Was the paper the required length?
• Was the paper grammatically correct?
• Was the paper free of run-on sentences?
• Was the paper free of punctuation errors?
• Were all words spelled correctly?
100 TOTAL POINTS
I think the First Amendment is the most important part of the construction. This Amendment in my opinion, is the most important because it spells out the basic rights for our …show more content…
I would not want to live in country where there legal decisions are based on God, or religion. People are not perfect and make mistakes, and need laws based on this day and times, not based upon a book that was written thousands of years ago. I believe that you have to base laws on criminal activity, and ways to maintain order, not on moral beliefs. I believe in God, but understand that not everyone else does, and don’t think people should be forced to believe if they don’t. There were many citizens that came to the United States from England, which left, because they did not believe in the Church of