Transcript Intro to Structures of U.S. Government ppt

Structures of U.S. Government
Introduction to the Branches of
Government
What are the three Branches
of Government?
Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch
Who leads Each Branch of
Government
Executive Branch
Led by the President of the United
States!
Judicial Branch
Led by the Supreme Court
Legislative Branch
Led by the President of the
Senate
Vice President
Led by the Speaker of the
House
What are the functions of the
3 branches?
Executive Branch
Enforces Laws
Judicial Branch
Interprets Laws
Now lets put this all into
practice!
In a group determined
by the color of your
name on your seating
place, you are going to
serve as the Legislative,
Executive, and Judicial
branch for a period.
You and your group are
going to rewrite the
U.S. laws as they deal
with Drug Trafficking!
Today’s Current Law
Federal Trafficking Penalties
DRUG/SCHEDULE
QUANTITY
PENALTIES
Cocaine (Schedule II)
500 - 4999 gms mixture
Cocaine Base
(Schedule II)
5-49 gms mixture
Fentanyl (Schedule II)
40 - 399 gms mixture
Fentanyl Analogue
(Schedule I)
10 - 99 gms mixture
Heroin (Schedule I)
100 - 999 gms mixture
LSD (Schedule I)
1 - 9 gms mixture
Methamphetamine
(Schedule II)
5 - 49 gms pure or 50 499 gms mixture
First Offense:
Not less than 5 yrs, and
not more than 40 yrs. If
death or serious injury, not
less than 20 or more than
life. Fine of not more than
$2 million if an individual,
$5 million if not an
individual
Second Offense: Not
less than 10 yrs, and not
more than life. If death or
serious injury, life
imprisonment. Fine of not
more than $4 million if an
individual, $10 million if
not an individual
PCP (Schedule II)
10 - 99 gms pure or
100 - 999 gms mixture
QUANTITY
5 kgs or more
mixture
50 gms or more
mixture
400 gms or more
mixture
100 gms or more
mixture
1 kg or more mixture
10 gms or more
mixture
50 gms or more pure
or 500 gms or more
mixture
100 gm or more pure
or 1 kg or more
mixture
PENALTIES
First Offense:
Not less than 10 yrs,
and not more than life.
If death or serious
injury, not less than 20
or more than life. Fine
of not more than $4
million if an individual,
$10 million if not an
individual.
Second Offense: Not
less than 20 yrs, and
not more than life. If
death or serious injury,
life imprisonment. Fine
of not more than $8
million if an individual,
$20 million if not an
individual.
2 or More Prior
Offenses: Life
imprisonment
U.S. Justice Dept.
DRUG
Marijuana
Marijuana
Marijuana
Marijuana
Federal Trafficking Penalties - Marijuana
QUANTITY
1,000 kg or more mixture; or 1,000
or more plants
100 kg to 999 kg mixture; or 100 to
999 plants
more than 10 kgs hashish; 50 to
99 kg mixture
more than 1 kg of hashish oil; 50 to
99 plants
1 to 49 plants; less than 50 kg
mixture
Hashish
10 kg or less
Hashish Oil
1 kg or less
1st OFFENSE
2nd OFFENSE
•Not less than 10 years, not more
than life
•If death or serious injury, not less
than 20 years, not more than life
•Fine not more than $4 million if an
individual, $10 million if other than
an individual
•Not less than 20 years, not more
than life
•If death or serious injury,
mandatory life
•Fine not more than $8 million if an
individual, $20 million if other than
an individual
•Not less than 5 years, not more
than 40 years
•If death or serous injury, not less
than 20 years, not more than life
•Fine not more than $2 million if an
individual, $5 million if other than
an individual
•Not less than 10 years, not more
than life
•If death or serious injury,
mandatory life
•Fine not more than $4 million if an
individual, $10 million if other than
an individual
•Not more than 20 years
•If death or serious injury, not less
than 20 years, not more than life
•Fine $1 million if an individual, $5
million if other than an individual
•Not more than 30 years
•If death or seroius injury,
mandatory life
•Fine $2 million if an individual,
$10 million if other than individual
•Not more than 5 years
•Fine not more than $250,000, $1
million other than individual
•Not more than 10 years
•Fine $500,000 if an individual, $2
million if other than individual
Task #1
Decide how you are going to write
your new law.
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1. Take into consideration:
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1. What is going to be illegal?
2. What are your punishments going to be?
3. Will different drugs entail different
punishments?
Task #2
Decide how you are going to
enforce your law.
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1. How are you going to enforce your law?
2. Who is going to enforce your law?
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FBI
Police
DEA
3. How will you pay for your enforcement?
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Will you raise taxes?
Will you take tax money from somewhere else?
Will you do anything? If not, what will you do?
Task #3
Now, how do you interpret this
law?
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Angela is 17 and pregnant
with her first child
She is found transporting
4kg of methamphetamine
that she claims is the
father of her child’s
What happens to Angela?