Subverting the Constitution in High School

Parents of high school students would be well advised to look at We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, the federally mandated text for what students learn about the founding and fundamental principles of this nation. When you do, you will discover that the "self-evident truths" of the Declaration of Independence have been magically transformed into mere "ideas" from the eighteenth century. The message is that they can be cast aside or changed in our times.

It gets much worse. When this textbook looks at the Bill of Rights, those ten amendments that are the very heart of the protections extended to individual American citizens, insuring that government cannot run rampant over them, neither the Second Amendment, nor the Ninth or Tenth are even mentioned!

Any text on the Constitution that ignores vital components of the Bill of Rights is on-its-face inadequate.

Posted on 2004-09-15 11:11:45.0 by matthew@triggerfinger.org

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