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Bodenhamer, David J. – OAH Magazine of History, 1990
Examines the origins of the U. S. Bill of Rights and constitutional guarantees, focusing on trial rights, tracing them to English antecedents and the colonial period. Explains changes in understanding and the application of trial rights, highlighting the U.S. Supreme Court's evolving influence since the nineteenth century. Outlines contemporary…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Butts, R. Freeman – 1988
If students are to fulfill their obligations and rights as U.S. citizens they must develop the ability to make careful judgements, based on a reasoned historical perspective and a meaningful conception of the basic democratic values underlying citizenship in our constitutional order. To this end, an agenda of 12 core civic values that are…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility