The nightly news in Austin has been dominated by updates from Fort Hood. Perhaps it’s moments like this that justify that last story on the national news. The one about a long lost teddy bear or crazy cute animals at the local zoo. Tonight, however, that last story was more than a palate cleanser. On [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Preamble’
Constitutional Teaching: To Form a More Perfect Union
A post during the first session at Montpelier initiated this series of inviting us to think about our role as teachers and officers of the U.S. Constitution. The task was to discuss each goal of the Constitution in our own terms and share how we support these goals in our work as teachers. For this [...]
Constitutional Teaching
As Professor Harris delivered his final remarks, he provided a copy of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution. He in fact provided five copies of it. There’s the text presented as a single paragraph as you’ve seen on posters or at the back of the textbook. There are then two versions of separating key components [...]
