Women's Property Rights: Supreme Court Decisions over Time

Benchmark 2

The Student:

• Knows formal institutions that have the authority to make and implement binding decisions (e.g., tribal councils, courts, monarchies, democratic legislatures)

Standard 25:

The Student:

Understands issues regarding personal, political, and economic rights.

Benchmark 1

The Student:

• Understands the importance to individuals and to society of personal rights such as freedom of thought and conscience, privacy and personal autonomy, and the right to due process of law and equal protection of the law

Benchmark 5

The Student:

• Knows major documentary sources of personal, political, and economic rights such as the Northwest Ordinance, state constitutions and bills of rights, court decisions, and common law

Benchmark 6

The Student:

• Understands how personal, political, and economic rights are secured by constitutional government and by such means as the rule of law, checks and balances, an independent judiciary, and a vigilant citizenry