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We the People...the Citizen and the Constitution

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Want to understand why your Constitution is written as it is? This is the textbook used by high school students in a competition about their understanding and application of the Constitution - somewhat in the format of a Senate hearing.

You'll learn so much interesting information and have a greater appreciation for the Constitution, the Founders and the Framers.

We aren't perfect. The goal for freedom is established but requires our diligence to keep it alive and safe. Studying this book is a way to renew your awe at the historical basis for this document, where it's great and where we've maybe gone astray.

Chapters are short enough for a quick daily read to get through it. Added bonuses: Founding documents included - Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution and Amendments, etc. Also a glossary of terms.

The price is very reasonable, you'll be informed and you may even participate as a timer or judge in a local competition leading to state and then U.S. winners in "We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution."
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I am a U.S. Government teacher, and I use this book. I've also worked in the U.S. Senate and have written legislation for a State Senate. So on various levels, I can spot bias and propoganda from a fairly vast distance. But if you want to find a textbook about U.S. Government or U.S. History that is free from any bias, you'll spend your remaining years searching in vain. I won't deny the merit of the previous reviews panning this book. But to make such statements without at least mentioning the responsibility of the teacher to point out such biases and ideological flaws and leanings is irresponsible. Does the book do injustice to various sections and layers of our founding and Constitution? Probably. But this presents a wonderful opportunity to show young people how to criticaly analyze textbook information, to question the words of authors and to not simply accept them as the word of God. Is this book left-wing propoganda? I would say that it's not. I think you'd have to be so far to the right that you're completely off the radar screen to believe that. But then, that's where many people in this country would like to see us go. Dangerous! My recommendation? Get the book.

I saw a copy of this paperback book in our lawyer's waiting room--I ordered a copy from Amazon. It arrived in good condition on time.

If you want to find out how much the Stalinist Left has penetrated American society, this is the book that will show you. It is pure statist disinformation. It ignores individual rights and powers reserved to the States and promotes a purely central government point of view. The second amendment, for example, is dismissed with the innacurate discription of protecting a state militia (oh?... most people can read the words "right of the people" which the Supreme Court has held always means individual rights...) dispite the fact that an exhaustive historical study by the US Justice Department, released in December 2004, concludes that the second amendment undeniably protects an individual right. The anti-individual rights, pro-centralized government world view permeates this revisionist trash.

The book you should read that will explain why this book and school curriculum is undesirable is "Textbook Review of WE the People: The Citizen and the Constitution" by Allen Quist.

You can get it here:
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Why? It will show you that We the People is a blatant promoter of world government over our own national sovereignty. This is what is being pushed in our schools thanks to Goals 2000, NCLB, IB, etc. and is because the UN (UNESCO) has taken over control of our government and is now controlling the schools. If you cannot rid your schools of this treasonous postmodern nonsense, then you really should remove your children from them....

The purpose of education today is to make the children conform to the totalitarian utopian world government under ONE authority, with no God given rights. This book is worse than leftist propaganda; it's one world government propaganda and promotes Marxism over freedom.

This book is a prime example of the pap Government Learning Centers are force-feeding our children. The Second Amendment is only cursorily included, in a section under Gun Control. Soon your kids will only be able to say "You want fries with that?"

Let's get this book pulled from the curriculum!