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Design your ‘ideal state’<\/a><\/strong>
\nIn this lesson, students take the ideas and principles they are now familiar with and use these to design an ‘ideal state’ by considering such things as the ideal age for voting, the benefits and disadvantages of having a monarchy, and so on. Plenty of room here for group work and spirited debate!<\/p>\n

Part of the new Political Ideologies scheme of work<\/a>.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Design your ‘ideal state’ In this lesson, students take the ideas and principles they are now familiar with and use these to design an ‘ideal state’ by considering such things as the ideal age for voting, the benefits and disadvantages of having a monarchy, and so on. Plenty of room here for group work and… <\/p>\n

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