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Brown v. Board of Education eLesson
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 eLesson Celebrate Black History month with materials on two landmark Supreme Court cases on the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. How could the same...
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Unlocking your Cellphone: Property Rights in the Digital Age If there’s one gadget nearly impossible to live without in the 21st century, it’s the cellphone. Most of us keep one on us at all times, and...
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Toast the Constitution!
Toast the Constitution! Bring the people, places, and history of the Prohibition Era alive with these new interactive lessons. In “The Rise and Fall of Prohibition,” your students will learn about the...
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Join Our Team: Opportunities at the Institute Love the Bill of Rights Institutes’ resources and workshops? Want to help other teachers expand their knowledge of the Constitution and Founding documents?...
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Tax Day and the 16th Amendment
Tax Day and the 16th Amendment Happy Tax Day! The celebratory tone might be a bit out of place, but from a constitutional perspective tax day, and the 16th Amendment which created it, are fascinating...
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Learn More About Gouverneur Morris eLesson Our latest eLesson is now available. Sign up to have our eLessons emailed directly to you! Though James Madison has been given the title, “Father of the...
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George Mason: In His Own Words eLesson
George Mason: In His Own Words Although your school year might be winding down, at this time in 1787 the Founders were just getting started at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Learn more...
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How One Teacher Uses Bill of Rights Institutes’ Teaching with Current Events Valencia Abbott, a Social Studies teacher at Rockingham Early College High School in Wentworth, North Carolina, shared how...
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Free Speech on Campus
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The Constitutionality of Affirmative Action
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America’s Founders – Blog Post
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Free Speech Week It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we...
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Abigail Adams- Blog Post
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John Adams- Blog Post
John Adams “There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” - 1772 Short, overweight, and quick-tongued,...
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