User talk:Kimberlyklein

Crafting a Bill of Rights

We are going to be doing a class project that is worth 25 points of your 75 Exam points that are available from your second scheduled exam. We are going to use Wikibooks, a community website, as our area where we will put all of our information. Obviously this is a way to insure that you will get these points as long as you do what is expected. The entire class, as a group, will be designing a Bill of Rights with the specifics listed below. I will register all of you as participants in this project. You will have approximately three weeks to finish the project. You are expected to visit the site at least once a week. I will be given a contribution history that will allow me to monitor if you have fulfilled your expectations. On this site you will be able to review, edit, and revise material written by other students as well as offer your own material. Peer review is strongly encouraged and it is expected. This process will hopefully assist the class in coming up with a formidable document. Wikibooks is open-content, which means that any user is free to edit almost any page at any time. There is a series of guidelines that Wikibooks has in place to govern the actions of its users. Copyright infringement is taken very seriously. Materials that violate copyright could be deleted without warning. Make sure you reference everything with respect to where you obtained the information. Obviously you will be able to link pages to this site; you are going to have to think a bit outside of the box. As a reminder, you can’t use profanity or use this page as a soapbox for promoting a particular religious, political, or other viewpoint. The web site that we are going to use is the following: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main Page

Remember this is a modern day country.

You are influential leaders of a new nation formed after years of war in a struggle for independence and freedom from a foreign power. You have been chosen by the people to embark upon the difficult task of creating a new government based upon the rule of law and the principles of democracy. Your particular committee must craft a Bill of Rights to place limits on the new government and protect the rights of its citizens. During this exercise you must accomplish the following: •	Name your imaginary country and provide a brief description of its geography and culture: (This is present day) •	Create a bill of rights (minimum of ten amendments) and provide a rational for each amendment addressed.

School and university projects
You might find this page useful: School and university projects. --JWSchmidt 21:35, 22 February 2007 (UTC)