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We Went to Visit a Favorite Teacher

celticeagle @celticeagle (189838) • Boise, Idaho 4 Feb 25

Back in 1971 an old friend and I went to visit a favorite junior high teacher. (It had been about 15 years since we were in school.) We were both pregnant at the same time. This teacher's name was Mr. Haneur and he had been our...

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Who Really Ruined Everything?

J.P. Randolph @jprtist (656) • Pueblo, Colorado 18 Mar 20

Many times over the years, I've heard people talk about Lawyers, and how they screwed everything up. I can't deny that we have a system of justice, and compensation that favors lawyers. I can't deny either, that there are many...

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Civics question

mommaj @mommaj (23112) • United States 16 Nov 15

My daughter did a civic's exam and I was surprised at remembering some of those things. One thing that I think is important to remember especially around election time is who declares wars. So, my question to all of you, out of...

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Exams and Civics

mommaj @mommaj (23112) • United States 15 Nov 15

My daughter is in the seventh grade this year. She was doing her exams this past week. I started thinking about when I was in school. I may be wrong, but I thought civics was taught in the sixth grade. We do live in a different...

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Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Rights?

PageTurner @PageTurner (2825) • United States 28 Jun 12

Hello Earlier this month in the State of Georgia (USA), The International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan applied to adopt a one mile stretch of highway 515 about a mile from the Georgia-North Carolina border, in Union...

constitutional rights

white supremacist

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The Three Branches of Government

laglen @laglen (19759) • United States 1 Feb 11

It turns out, public schools have done me wrong. I think it was around 5th or 6th grade that I was taught that the three branches of Government were, Executive, Legislative and Judicial. According to Senator Chuck Schumer (New...

branches of government

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Of Flags and Right & Wrong

CraftyCorner @CraftyCorner (5600) • United States 17 Nov 09

Today the future can seem bleak. We have a rough looking recession bordering on depression in the USA. We've two wars that appear to be going only into bloody quagmire rather than to victory of any sort. I have written several...

The US is not, never has been, and should never be a Democracy!

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 21 Apr 09

Ok, let's get this out once and for all. I don't care what your civics or history teacher taught you; I don't care what words the rhetoric of the politicians cause them to use to get votes; I don't care what anyone else you look...

founding fathers

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Understanding Our Nation

CarlKnittel @CarlKnittel (692) • United States 10 Nov 08

It is most distressing to see the number of people who do not know what Our Founding Documents say let alone why or what it means. I've started a new series of Articles to try and correct that. The first is on the preamble to our...

the constitution

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kramer from seinfield

claytonlister @claytonlister (4) • United States 9 Mar 07

In my gifted tenth grade civics class, we can earn extra credit for answering questions that our teacher tells us to, but most of the questions don't have to do with the class and so he adds them as extra credit. I have been...

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A Question of Justice and Civics.

huss_iitb @huss_iitb (171) • India 11 Dec 06

Should former prisoners be allowed to vote?????