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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow can teachers teach about govt and constitution today? Eg, how bills become laws?
There's the way it supposedly works that I learned in Jr-high and high-school in the 50s.
And how Trump, Mitch, and GOP are doing things today.
Qutzupalotl
(14,318 posts)and his subordinate lackeys in Congress make it happen.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)nothing that I remember in jr. high and a bit more in HS. Deeper dive in college poli sci classes.
You would have to teach a class on the rules of Congress to really understand how bills become laws I would think.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Economics, Political Science are not even electives any more, especially in red states.
UTUSN
(70,715 posts)TURTLE has done everything to obliterate the precepts of government: By holding the bills, he is obliterating the concept of co-equal branches of government, is saying that SHITLER has complete dominance over the Congress. And stacking the judiciary means dominance over there, too. Just by stopping the nomination of GARLAND is another obliteration.
We're in POST-Constitution, in tyranny with rule by dictum.
anarch
(6,535 posts)Russ-publicans have killed American Democracy.
Golden Raisin
(4,609 posts)exist today or certainly are not prevalent in many schools' curricula. It's actually a huge problem as we are raising a future electorate ignorant of the Constitution and therefore not even knowing when their rights are being usurped, taken away or chiseled down. We had 'Civics' in Junior High and then a class called 'American Government' in Senior year (which actually included a student trip to Washington, D.C.)