Introduction To The Constitution, Celebrate the Constitution & Trivia

[Steven Jamar]

FOTFL!!

Though in fact, I'm largely with Sandy on this one in terms of teaching not
just the glories of our Constitution (as revolutionized and judicially
"amended" in the 20th Century), but also its serious deficiencies including
such things as using the term "speech" instead of "expression" and not
allowing easily for the democratic body to regulate campaign (to a point)
and its unamendability and the Senate's geographic distribution (15% of the
population controls 50% of the Senate) and non-direct election of the
president.

But I wouldn't go quite so far as Joseph Cotten's "Uncle Charlie."

Steve


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Franck, Matthew J <mfranck at radford.edu>wrote:

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> same way Uncle Charlie teaches his niece about the world in Hitchcock's
> Shadow of a Doubt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX6s3LTds3s
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: conlawprof-bounces at lists.ucla.edu [mailto:
> conlawprof-bounces at lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Sanford Levinson
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:45 AM
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> Subject: RE: Introduction To The Constitution, Celebrate the Constitution &
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> the Constitution.  But why does this entail "celebrat[ing] the Constitution"
> instead of coming to the conclusion that it is radically defective?  If one
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> From: conlawprof-bounces at lists.ucla.edu [conlawprof-bounces at lists.ucla.edu]
> On Behalf Of Cindy Koeppel [ckoeppel at dirksencenter.org]
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:00 PM
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> Subject: Introduction To The Constitution,       Celebrate the Constitution
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> INTRODUCTION TO THE CONSTITUTION & TRIVIA
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> This section of Congress for Kids covers the history of the Constitution of
> the United States. It includes information about the writing the
> Constitution, the Great Compromise, the Constitution’s signers, the Bill of
> Rights, the Amendments to the Constitution and what they mean to Americans,
> and much more. Let's get started...click on Learn About The Constitution at:
> http://www.congressforkids.net/Constitution_index.htm
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> * Celebrate the Constitution *
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> Do you know your rights? After starting the game, drag each statement that
> appears on your screen to the document where it belongs.  Place one correct
> statement in each of the four documents.  Get all four right and you’re a
> Constitution Whiz Kid!  If you don’t want to play, click on any of the links
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> Thanks to a legal "fiction" developed by courts in response to the breadth
> of the state sovereign immunity doctrine, many suits which might otherwise
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> *Find the answer in next month's issue of Communicator --
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-- 
Prof. Steven Jamar
Howard University School of Law
Associate Director, Institute of Intellectual Property and Social Justice
(IIPSJ) Inc.
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