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Business Legal SystemsThe Business Legal Systems course provides students with an understanding of the legal framework in which American business functions.
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Course Standards
Standard 1.0
The student will develop and apply concepts related to human relations, safety, career development,
communications and leadership skills for a global workplace.
The student will:
1.1 Develop sensitivity to personal, societal, corporate, and governmental responsibility to
community and global issues.
1.2 Demonstrate the interpersonal, teamwork, and leadership skills needed to function in
diverse business settings, including the global marketplace.
1.3 Communicate effectively as writers, listeners, and speakers in diverse social and business
settings.
1.4 Apply the critical-thinking and soft skills needed to function in students’ multiple roles as
citizens, consumers, workers, managers, business owners, and directors of their own
futures.
1.5 Analyze and follow policies for managing legal and ethical issues in organizations and in a
technology-based society.
1.6 Investigate the lifelong learning skills that foster flexible career paths and confidence in
adapting to a workplace that demands constant retooling.
1.7 Assess personal skills, abilities, aptitudes and personal strengths and weaknesses as they
relate to career exploration and apply knowledge gained from individual assessment to
research and develop an individual career plan.
1.8 Examine the goals and principles of Future Business Leaders of America.
1.9 Investigate online and office safety procedures and pass a written safety examination with
100% accuracy.
1.10 Demonstrate parliamentary procedure through office staff/chapter organizational
meetings.
1.11 Apply appropriate typography concepts to industry documents.
Sample Performance Task
Design and produce a team project on legal and ethical issues that includes issues and
penalties for plagiarism, copied data with permission and the process used in obtaining
permission. Obtain formal permission for use of quotations, art form, design, music, and
photographs. Develop and present a total team project utilizing various technology
components and appropriate typography concepts
Standard 2.0
The student will analyze the Constitution as it relates to American business.
The student will:
2.1 Examine the historical background of the United States legal system.
2.2 Analyze the basic principles upon which the Constitution of the United States is based.
2.3 Demonstrate the role of constitutions in preventing abuse of governmental power.
2.4 Analyze the impact of the Constitution, Constitutional Amendments, and federal acts on
American business practices.
2.5 Critique the effect of rule of law as it applies to business and employees.
Sample Performance Task
Using scenarios (i.e., skits, debates, role-play activities), students will work in teams to
perform the following:
Demonstrate the purposes of law.
Identify the sources of law and constitutional rights of U. S. citizens.
Demonstrate the way laws affect individuals as well as American business.
Compare and analyze the cause and effect of governmental regulation and
deregulation.
Critique acts and proposed reformation of programs to evaluate governmental
interaction.
Determine the effect of rule of law on business and employees.
Evaluation will be based on the accuracy of information gathered and reported. This will
be determined through written or verbal evaluation.
Standard 3.0
The student will analyze ways the Bill of Rights protects the American citizen.
The student will:
3.1 Examine the basic freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
3.2 Analyze the effect of laws on individual rights and freedoms.
3.3 Investigate the balance between the protection of individual rights and the general
welfare of all citizens.
Sample Performance Task
Research a legal case that demonstrates basic freedoms obtained by the Bill of Rights.
Design and create an oral presentation, citing evidence to prove understanding within
small groups.
Standard 4.0
The student will investigate the organizational structure of the executive, legislative, and judicial
branches of federal, state, and local governments.
The student will:
4.1 Compare and contrast requirements and duties for the executive and legislative branches.
4.2 Examine the process for proposing and passing legislation.
4.3 Examine the function of the judicial system as it relates to the executive and legislative
branches.
4.4 Relate the duties and requirements for serving in state and local governments.
4.5. Analyze the function of a system of checks and balances.
Sample Performance Task
Research and prepare a visual display showing requirements and current members of the
federal executive and legislative branches and of state and local governing bodies.
Design an effective representation of steps necessary to have a student written bill
passed.
Dramatize the process in a mock legislative session utilizing ethical practice and
procedural law.
Standard 5.0
The student will connect ethics, law, the court system, and substantive and procedural law.
The student will:
5.1 Compare the relationship between ethics and the law.
5.2 Analyze the structure of federal, state, and local courts in the American legal system.
5.3 Connect the role of the juvenile court with the role of other courts within a state,
territory, or province.
5.4. Differentiate between substantive and procedural law.
Sample Performance Task
Examine a newspaper or a magazine article involving a legal issue. Display and present an
explanation of the article. Differentiate between the ethical and legal points in the article.
What were the legal points raised in the article? What were the ethical points in the
article? Explain how a better understanding of the difference between ethics and the law
would have been helpful. Would the article have been better presented if it were divided
into two articles—one article looking at the issue from a legal vantage point and another
looking at the issue from an ethical vantage point. Evaluation will be based on the
presentation and a short written report.
Standard 6.0
The student will apply the concepts of contract law.
The student will:
6.1 Analyze the essential parts of a contract.
6.2 Analyze the different classifications of contracts.
6.3 Compare requirements of an offer and an acceptance.
6.4 Analyze requirements for valid consideration.
Sample Performance Task
Each student will compose a list of contractual relationships entered into during a
previous time period (i.e., buying clothes, renting a video, ordering food in a restaurant,
buying gas, agreeing to baby sit, etc.). The student will differentiate between the implied
and expressed (contracts and those that are bilateral and unilateral. The class will be
divided into student teams that will discuss and evaluate the accuracy of the classification
of contracts.
Standard 7.0
The student will analyze laws for the protection of the consumer.
The student will:
7.1 Identify consumer laws that regulate consumer protection.
7.2 Investigate consumer laws that regulate consumer credit.
7.3 Differentiate the law of sales from various transactions relating to sales.
Sample Performance Task
Student groups will create a brochure marketing new consumer protection. Students will
present findings via multimedia application within small groups.
Standard 8.0
The student will examine domestic relations laws.
The student will:
8.1 Analyze legal considerations in marriage.
8.2 Analyze legal considerations in divorce.
8.3 Analyze legal considerations in child custody.
8.4 Analyze legal considerations in domestic abuse, child abuse, neglect or other related
issues to domestic abuse.
Sample Performance Task
Contrast the age requirements for marriage with respect to different states.
Standard 9.0
The student will analyze the functions of commercial paper, insurance, secured transactions, and
bankruptcy.
The student will:
9.1 Apply correct procedures for borrowing money with secured transactions.
9.2 Evaluate criteria used in making wise decisions when purchasing on credit.
9.3 Analyze types of negotiable instruments, including commercial paper.
9.4 Relate the purchase of insurance to specific individual needs.
9.5 Examine bankruptcy laws.
Sample Performance Task
Students will complete a simulation that employs the use of commercial paper or other
negotiable instruments, (i.e., certified checks, cashier's checks, bank drafts, money orders,
and /or traveler's checks).
Standard 10.0
The student will examine business organizations and government regulations.
The student will:
10.1 Compare and contrast the four types of business organizations.
10.2 Analyze ways legislation affects business organizations.
Sample Performance Task
Students will create presentations (i.e., chart, poster, interactive multimedia, and
verbal/written), that lists legislative acts that affect businesses, the provisions of each act,
and those organizations protected under the acts.
Standard 11.0
The student will analyze the role and importance of agency law and employment law as they relate to
the conduct of business.
The student will:
11.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of an agency relationship.
11.2 Analyze the different types of agents.
11.3 Analyze the duties of the employer.
11.4 Analyze the duties of the employee.
11.5 Interpret the impact of legislation on worker benefits, employment conditions, and
employee rights.
Sample Performance Task
Clip and critique newspaper and/or magazine articles about incidents or court cases that
deal with employment issues. Analyze the cases or issues. Students will then debate their
findings in small groups showing understanding of the concepts demonstrated.
Standard 12.0
The student will analyze the legalities that apply to personal property, real property, and estate
planning.
The student will:
12.1 Investigate items that are considered personal property.
12.2 Determine the characteristics of items that would deem them real property.
12.3 Analyze the various components of estate planning and determine when estate planning
is advisable.
Sample Performance Task
Analyze case studies related to real and personal property.
Standard 13.0
Analyze the American business and legal systems compared to other global business and legal
systems.
The student will:
13.1 Investigate types of legal systems that are different from the U.S. system.
13.2 Analyze business law and practices in other countries which are different than the US
practices.
13.3 Examine laws and practices related to the import and export of goods and services (trade
agreements, protectionism, trade balance).
13.4 Assess the role of trade agreements and international legal and political bodies in the
resolution of trade disputes.
Sample Performance Task
Debate the advisability of imposing a tariff on a given product. Simulate one country
taking a trade dispute to the International Court of Justice against the practices of another
country.
Standard 1.0
The student will develop and apply concepts related to human relations, safety, career development,
communications and leadership skills for a global workplace.
The student will:
1.1 Develop sensitivity to personal, societal, corporate, and governmental responsibility to
community and global issues.
1.2 Demonstrate the interpersonal, teamwork, and leadership skills needed to function in
diverse business settings, including the global marketplace.
1.3 Communicate effectively as writers, listeners, and speakers in diverse social and business
settings.
1.4 Apply the critical-thinking and soft skills needed to function in students’ multiple roles as
citizens, consumers, workers, managers, business owners, and directors of their own
futures.
1.5 Analyze and follow policies for managing legal and ethical issues in organizations and in a
technology-based society.
1.6 Investigate the lifelong learning skills that foster flexible career paths and confidence in
adapting to a workplace that demands constant retooling.
1.7 Assess personal skills, abilities, aptitudes and personal strengths and weaknesses as they
relate to career exploration and apply knowledge gained from individual assessment to
research and develop an individual career plan.
1.8 Examine the goals and principles of Future Business Leaders of America.
1.9 Investigate online and office safety procedures and pass a written safety examination with
100% accuracy.
1.10 Demonstrate parliamentary procedure through office staff/chapter organizational
meetings.
1.11 Apply appropriate typography concepts to industry documents.
Sample Performance Task
Design and produce a team project on legal and ethical issues that includes issues and
penalties for plagiarism, copied data with permission and the process used in obtaining
permission. Obtain formal permission for use of quotations, art form, design, music, and
photographs. Develop and present a total team project utilizing various technology
components and appropriate typography concepts
Standard 2.0
The student will analyze the Constitution as it relates to American business.
The student will:
2.1 Examine the historical background of the United States legal system.
2.2 Analyze the basic principles upon which the Constitution of the United States is based.
2.3 Demonstrate the role of constitutions in preventing abuse of governmental power.
2.4 Analyze the impact of the Constitution, Constitutional Amendments, and federal acts on
American business practices.
2.5 Critique the effect of rule of law as it applies to business and employees.
Sample Performance Task
Using scenarios (i.e., skits, debates, role-play activities), students will work in teams to
perform the following:
Demonstrate the purposes of law.
Identify the sources of law and constitutional rights of U. S. citizens.
Demonstrate the way laws affect individuals as well as American business.
Compare and analyze the cause and effect of governmental regulation and
deregulation.
Critique acts and proposed reformation of programs to evaluate governmental
interaction.
Determine the effect of rule of law on business and employees.
Evaluation will be based on the accuracy of information gathered and reported. This will
be determined through written or verbal evaluation.
Standard 3.0
The student will analyze ways the Bill of Rights protects the American citizen.
The student will:
3.1 Examine the basic freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
3.2 Analyze the effect of laws on individual rights and freedoms.
3.3 Investigate the balance between the protection of individual rights and the general
welfare of all citizens.
Sample Performance Task
Research a legal case that demonstrates basic freedoms obtained by the Bill of Rights.
Design and create an oral presentation, citing evidence to prove understanding within
small groups.
Standard 4.0
The student will investigate the organizational structure of the executive, legislative, and judicial
branches of federal, state, and local governments.
The student will:
4.1 Compare and contrast requirements and duties for the executive and legislative branches.
4.2 Examine the process for proposing and passing legislation.
4.3 Examine the function of the judicial system as it relates to the executive and legislative
branches.
4.4 Relate the duties and requirements for serving in state and local governments.
4.5. Analyze the function of a system of checks and balances.
Sample Performance Task
Research and prepare a visual display showing requirements and current members of the
federal executive and legislative branches and of state and local governing bodies.
Design an effective representation of steps necessary to have a student written bill
passed.
Dramatize the process in a mock legislative session utilizing ethical practice and
procedural law.
Standard 5.0
The student will connect ethics, law, the court system, and substantive and procedural law.
The student will:
5.1 Compare the relationship between ethics and the law.
5.2 Analyze the structure of federal, state, and local courts in the American legal system.
5.3 Connect the role of the juvenile court with the role of other courts within a state,
territory, or province.
5.4. Differentiate between substantive and procedural law.
Sample Performance Task
Examine a newspaper or a magazine article involving a legal issue. Display and present an
explanation of the article. Differentiate between the ethical and legal points in the article.
What were the legal points raised in the article? What were the ethical points in the
article? Explain how a better understanding of the difference between ethics and the law
would have been helpful. Would the article have been better presented if it were divided
into two articles—one article looking at the issue from a legal vantage point and another
looking at the issue from an ethical vantage point. Evaluation will be based on the
presentation and a short written report.
Standard 6.0
The student will apply the concepts of contract law.
The student will:
6.1 Analyze the essential parts of a contract.
6.2 Analyze the different classifications of contracts.
6.3 Compare requirements of an offer and an acceptance.
6.4 Analyze requirements for valid consideration.
Sample Performance Task
Each student will compose a list of contractual relationships entered into during a
previous time period (i.e., buying clothes, renting a video, ordering food in a restaurant,
buying gas, agreeing to baby sit, etc.). The student will differentiate between the implied
and expressed (contracts and those that are bilateral and unilateral. The class will be
divided into student teams that will discuss and evaluate the accuracy of the classification
of contracts.
Standard 7.0
The student will analyze laws for the protection of the consumer.
The student will:
7.1 Identify consumer laws that regulate consumer protection.
7.2 Investigate consumer laws that regulate consumer credit.
7.3 Differentiate the law of sales from various transactions relating to sales.
Sample Performance Task
Student groups will create a brochure marketing new consumer protection. Students will
present findings via multimedia application within small groups.
Standard 8.0
The student will examine domestic relations laws.
The student will:
8.1 Analyze legal considerations in marriage.
8.2 Analyze legal considerations in divorce.
8.3 Analyze legal considerations in child custody.
8.4 Analyze legal considerations in domestic abuse, child abuse, neglect or other related
issues to domestic abuse.
Sample Performance Task
Contrast the age requirements for marriage with respect to different states.
Standard 9.0
The student will analyze the functions of commercial paper, insurance, secured transactions, and
bankruptcy.
The student will:
9.1 Apply correct procedures for borrowing money with secured transactions.
9.2 Evaluate criteria used in making wise decisions when purchasing on credit.
9.3 Analyze types of negotiable instruments, including commercial paper.
9.4 Relate the purchase of insurance to specific individual needs.
9.5 Examine bankruptcy laws.
Sample Performance Task
Students will complete a simulation that employs the use of commercial paper or other
negotiable instruments, (i.e., certified checks, cashier's checks, bank drafts, money orders,
and /or traveler's checks).
Standard 10.0
The student will examine business organizations and government regulations.
The student will:
10.1 Compare and contrast the four types of business organizations.
10.2 Analyze ways legislation affects business organizations.
Sample Performance Task
Students will create presentations (i.e., chart, poster, interactive multimedia, and
verbal/written), that lists legislative acts that affect businesses, the provisions of each act,
and those organizations protected under the acts.
Standard 11.0
The student will analyze the role and importance of agency law and employment law as they relate to
the conduct of business.
The student will:
11.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of an agency relationship.
11.2 Analyze the different types of agents.
11.3 Analyze the duties of the employer.
11.4 Analyze the duties of the employee.
11.5 Interpret the impact of legislation on worker benefits, employment conditions, and
employee rights.
Sample Performance Task
Clip and critique newspaper and/or magazine articles about incidents or court cases that
deal with employment issues. Analyze the cases or issues. Students will then debate their
findings in small groups showing understanding of the concepts demonstrated.
Standard 12.0
The student will analyze the legalities that apply to personal property, real property, and estate
planning.
The student will:
12.1 Investigate items that are considered personal property.
12.2 Determine the characteristics of items that would deem them real property.
12.3 Analyze the various components of estate planning and determine when estate planning
is advisable.
Sample Performance Task
Analyze case studies related to real and personal property.
Standard 13.0
Analyze the American business and legal systems compared to other global business and legal
systems.
The student will:
13.1 Investigate types of legal systems that are different from the U.S. system.
13.2 Analyze business law and practices in other countries which are different than the US
practices.
13.3 Examine laws and practices related to the import and export of goods and services (trade
agreements, protectionism, trade balance).
13.4 Assess the role of trade agreements and international legal and political bodies in the
resolution of trade disputes.
Sample Performance Task
Debate the advisability of imposing a tariff on a given product. Simulate one country
taking a trade dispute to the International Court of Justice against the practices of another
country.
