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The Incomplete Constitution
by Charles Cooper The Constitution is the greatest protector of rights ever penned by man’s hands. Simply by being a written Constitution, the document professes to be a touch-stone of liberty. Like a...
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Submission: THANKSGIVING LESSON TEACHES HATE, FEAR, AND RACISM
This is a guest post by Karen Schroeder, President of Advocates for Academic Freedom A Thanksgiving lesson that teaches hate, fear, and racism rather than collaboration, diversity, and respect for...
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Civics Lesson #3: THE PURPOSE OF A CONSTITUTION
The third installment of FJ Rocca’s Civics Lessons series. The United States was established as a constitutional republic. The Founding Fathers provided us with three vital documents, the Declaration...
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CIVICS LESSON #5: SOME IMPORTANT NOTES ON VOTING
This is the fifth of FJ Rocca’s Civics Lessons series. In the US, we have a constitutional republic in which government consists of elected public officials who do not control us, but who represent us...
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CIVICS LESSON #6 CITIZENS MUST PROTECT THEIR FREEDOM AND RIGHTS
This is the sixth edition of FJ Rocca‘s series, Civics Lessons. The saying “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” is a stirring reminder that we must always be alert to threats against our...
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CIVICS LESSON #9: THE FLAG AND WHY WE PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO IT
Flags have been around for thousands of years. They have been used for many purposes, including communication, from the semaphore signals that used to be taught in Boy Scouts, to signals among ships at...
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CIVICS LESSON #10: A GOVERNMENT OF LAWS AND NOT A GOVERNMENT OF PERSONALITIES
John Adams’s oft quoted phrase “a government of laws and not of men” has very specific meaning. Our nation was founded by wise men who realized that a government of laws was stable, but a government of...
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GOOD CITIZENSHIP SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN THE CLASSROOM
The standards set up by the founding fathers in the Declaration, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, represent the core tenets of Judeo-Christian culture, but distilled in secular fashion so that...
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