Court Presentation Guidelines

The following is a short rubric for your presentations:

1. Correctly identify the constitutional question.
2. Correctly identify the compelling government interest.
3. Show is visually appealing and informative- information is broken down and the slides are not full of text.
4. Court language is present that helps us to understand the mindset of the court.
5. Test or precedent is correctly identified.

History in Film: Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

Use this link to access the full text version of "Plunkitt of Tammany Hall" as told by Willaim Riordaon in 1905.http://gutenberg.readingroo.ms/2/8/1/2810/2810.txt Please read the text and answer the following questions regarding honest and dishonest "graft."

1. What, according to Plunkitt, is the difference between "honest" and "dishonest" graft?
2. Do you agree that a distinction should be made?
3. Is Plunkitt justified in making his argument?
4. What is Plunkitt's opinion of the civil service exam?

Please turn these question in on Tuesday Feb 3rd.