How to read the Constitution and why
"The Constitution is the most significant document in America. But do you fully understand what this valuable document means to you? In How to Read the Constitution--and Why, legal expert and educator Kimberly Wehle spells out in clear, simple, and common sense terms what is in the Constitution...
| Main Author: | Wehle, Kim (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I:
- Structure.
- The basics: each branch has a job description
- and two bosses
- Congress: lots of power to a herd of cats
- The (real) powers of the President: no more kings
- The courts: what was that about kings?
- Part II:
- Rights.
- Speech, religion, and the first amendment
- Guns and the second amendment
- Crime and the fourth, fifth, sixth, and eighth amendments,
- Liberty and equality: fifth and fourteenth amendments
- What does the Constitution say about the states?
- Part III:
- Why care?
- Why it matters how politicians get hired and fired
- If the Constitution stops functioning, why should I care?
- Sustaining democracy: some takeaways
- Glossary
- The Constitution of the United States.