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This is the assignment.

Quote:The U.S. Constitution reflects our government and impacts us today.
How well does the U.S. Constitution reflect core principles?


5 Preamble Principles: establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general, and ensure the blessings of liberty.

6 Basic Principles: popular sovereignty, limited government, separation of powers, checks and balances, judicial review, and federalism.



1. Find a current event article that interests you and addresses governmental issue. Then decide which principle is addressed by the article and why.

2. Identify an article/section of the Constitution that reflects/addresses that principle found in the current event article.

3. Create a thesis statement that answers the overarching question in the gray above.

3. Write a 4-paragraph essay.

I have a few articles that I am thinking about using. I can only use one essay and I am looking for a good one to use that refers to these principles and what I can type for the essay.

Here are the articles:

http://www.infowars.com/public-schools-a...lice-state

http://www.infowars.com/school-stabbing-...ter-knives

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Oh no, don't use infowars. Anything else but infowars.. You'll only make a fool of yourself.

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What Night said... Don't be that guy...

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I read one of the articles. A bit over the top but can someone pinpoint to me what's wrong with it? xD

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(05-06-2014 04:50 AM)SirMarty Wrote:  I read one of the articles. A bit over the top but can someone pinpoint to me what's wrong with it? xD

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Infowars

It's basically nutjob conspiracy theories and tin foil hat propaganda and fearmongering.

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Then could somebody link me to a good article that I can do my essay on relating to public education?

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Just going throuhg my memory of school news I've heard.

Recent story.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/01/oh...s-brother/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/23...01644.html

http://myfox8.com/2014/04/22/nc-girl-kic...ing-pants/

That's all I could remember. Then I went googling.
And this came up
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/school-...ool-n97251

I think you'll like that one.

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I would like to do the last one, but how does this tie into the government? It needs to involve the government.
Like this: http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?opti...Itemid=358

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Well I'm not sure how to tie the government in with the one i had.

This is a similar article though
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/af...ace-n89856

Idk lakeconews.com by the way. That article itself might be fine.

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Night did you link Fox?

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School = Anti-American = Unconstitutional = Enemy to the State = EXTERMINATE!

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(05-06-2014 06:48 AM)Chanku Wrote:  Night did you link Fox?

Idk. I think that was a local one. But either way, the Fox news website is actually decent. The tv programs are the most problematic.

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