Virginia standards alignment

• GOVT.9b

  Covered

  explaining how the Marshall Court established the Supreme Court as an independent branch of government in Marbury v. Madison

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)

  Note: Judicial review is taught by name, through Marbury v. Madison.

• GOVT.7

  Partially covered

  The student will apply history and social science skills to describe the scope and limits of the powers of the federal legislative branch of the U.S. government as delineated in Article I of the Constitution

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: Article I's structure and the complete federal lawmaking process (committees through veto override) are taught; the 'scope and limits' of the enumerated legislative powers are not treated systematically.

• GOVT.8

  Partially covered

  The student will apply history and science skills to describe the powers of the executive branch of the U.S. government as delineated in Article II of the Constitution

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the executive branch is taught as one of the three federal branches and through Article II; how executive power has changed over time (the 20th/22nd/25th Amendments the standard names) is not worked. (Transcribed as printed, including the document's 'history and science skills'.)

What we don't claim

A standards page is only worth reading if the omissions are honest too. We looked at these and left them out:

• Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Virginia mathematics standard.
• Virginia's English and Science SOL — deferred, not denied. Virginia writes its own English SOL and its own Science SOL (Virginia is NOT an NGSS state). Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite: the Virginia DOE's standards portal refused our tooling this pass, so these courses carry no Virginia claims yet. The BVC rhetoric, media-literacy, and research-project work that maps to them elsewhere is real; it is the Virginia text we have not yet retrieved from an acceptable source. (The GOVT Skills strand does give our source-evaluation and argument work a genuine home — Skills GOVT c and j above.)
• The civic-identity, comparative-systems, and money-in-politics objectives we do not teach. GOVT.2b-f and GOVT.4a-d (comparing forms of government; Tocqueville's five values; the mottos 'E Pluribus Unum' and 'In God We Trust'; the American Creed) ask for civic-identity content the catalog does not teach. GOVT.3a (The Federalist Papers #10 and #51), GOVT.1d (George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights, Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom, Madison's role in the Bill of Rights), GOVT.6a-b/6f (suffrage expansion, campaign finance, gerrymandering), GOVT.9d (originalism vs. judicial activism), GOVT.10e (partisan vs. nonpartisan offices), GOVT.13b/13d (Smith/Marx/Keynes/Hayek/Friedman/Sowell; the Bill of Rights vs. the Communist Manifesto), and GOVT.14b/14d-f (public goods, taxation, fiscal and monetary policy) are named but not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
• GOVT.3g (the amendment process) — a real match we cannot cite as printed. GOVT.3g, 'explaining the amendment process', is a genuine match — the catalog teaches both Article V and Virginia's two-sessions-plus-a-referendum path. But the printed clause is under the ~40-character floor the isolation suite enforces to reject paraphrases, and we will not pad it. Virginia's amendment path is instead cited where it has longer standard text to attach to (GOVT.10b, GOVT.1c). The gap is in the citeable grain, not the lesson.