You Are the Bureaucrat

Culminating Activity for Chapter 15

A Meeting of the Minds• Get together with the other classmates that were

assigned as the same bureaucrat as you.• Compare notes and findings.– Discuss your discretionary authority– Compare the laws you chose and explain them to each

other if they vary.– Compare your court cases and explain them if they

vary.• Complete part I of the project sheet together.• Re-number everyone 1-4 (if fewer than 4 I will

renumber you).

Bureaucratic Roundtable

• Go to your new group. Take your sheet with you.• Share with the group the following aspects of

your “career:”– Who you work for– The discretionary authority the agency or bureau has– What laws you help enforce

• Complete part II of the sheet.• Turn in sheet with your project, but not stapled!

Assignment for Tuesday, 3/31

• Read pp. 438-446. Take notes by headings. Be sure to read the inset about Marbury v. Madison on p. 443.

• Complete the activism/constructionism scenarios and the exercises on judicial independence.