You will ANSWER the Chapter 5 and 6 Essential Questions.  Your answer will be typed, spell-checked, double spaced, and in a regular 12 font size.  Your response should be 1-2 pages in length per CHAPTER.  This assignment is worth 50 points, 10 points for grammar and spelling, 30 points for explaining the concepts in Chapters 5 and 6 from your text in your response, and 10 points for your opinion in the response.  If you are footnoting a source simply put the name of the author and page number and/or website URL in parentheses () at the end of the sentence.

Chapter 5:  Civil Liberties

1. Consider the issue of privacy and governmental searches of individuals’ computer files.              Describe in this case how you would balance civil liberties with the need for government            authority.  When or under what circumstances do you think government should be able to          access and search an individual’s computer files without his or her knowledge or consent?  What limits, if any, would you place on the government’s ability to do this?

Chapter 6:  Civil Rights

1. What is the social purpose of the government’s recognition of the institution of marriage? Why     does the government sanction this form of contract? How does the issue of the gender of each participant in a given marriage fit into the discussion?