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Democracy and Education in the Thought of Jefferson and Madison.
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Carcieri, Martin D. – Journal of Law and Education, 1997
Focusing on Jefferson's and Madison's writings, demonstrates that the popular education/liberal republican democracy linkage constitutionalized by founders was real and correct. Conservative Congressional Republicans who tout their Jeffersonian and Madisonian political underpinnings should reconsider before undermining the federal role in U.S.…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Conservatism, Constitutional Law, Democratic Values
Bicentennial of the Constitution. Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Constitution and the Approaching Bicentennial Celebration. Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary. Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session (September 17, 1985).
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. – 1986
Minutes of a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution are presented, beginning with opening statements from four United States senators (Hatch, Grassley, Thurmond, DeConcini) concerning the significance of the United States Constitution and its doctrine of the diffusion of powers. The core of the minutes includes the prepared…
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Government (Administrative Body), Government Role
[First Amendment.]
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Update on the Courts, 1995
Two articles in this instructional newsletter elucidate rulings by the United States Supreme Court, Circuit Court of Appeals, and District Courts affecting state sponsored school prayer: (1) "First Amendment Prayer Pendulum"; (2) "First Amendment. Rosenberger v University of Virginia." The newsletter provides the facts of the…
Descriptors: Church Role, Churches, Citizenship Education, Civil Law