The US constitution was written in 1787, over 233 years ago. Can it still be relevant today? It was written to provide checks and balances of power. It was written to give basic rights and freedoms to its citizens. It allows for amendments to encompass unforeseen future circumstances. Many people today question whether the constitution is doing the job it was meant to do. Does it protect all the people of the United States? Is it being ignored or corrupted by politicians? Does it need to be re-written? In order to attempt to answer these questions, it helps to be better informed. Check out some of the resources available on many of the critical issues of today and how they relate to our constitution. Come by PCC Library to get free copies of the booklet The U.S. Constitution and Fascinating Facts About it.
The Constitution Itself Print and Ebooks American Epic: Reading the US Constitution A Biography of the Constitution of the United States Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995 How to Read the Constitution and Why A Pocket Guide to the US Constitution: What Every American Needs to Know, 2nd ed. Videos John Paul Stevens: Six Amendments Amending the Constitution Websites The Constitution and its Amendments Constitution Day Constitution Quiz The Constitution and Your Rights Print and Ebooks The Cult of the Constitution Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights Videos Constitutional Free Speech Principles Can Save Social Media Companies from Themselves: A Debate It’s a Free Country You Can’t Say That!: Politically Correct Free Speech Website Interactive Constitution Know Your Rights heap of books close up The Constitution and Education Print and Ebooks A Federal Right to Education: Fundamental Questions for our Democracy The Politics of American Education Video The Equal Protection Clause Forbids Racial Preferences in State University Admissions: A Debate Websites Ask the Expert: What Does the Constitution Say About Education? Your Right to Equality in Education Constitution Day Naturalization Ceremony Constitution and Immigration/Citizenship Print and Ebooks American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship Citizenship and its Exclusions: A Classical, Constitutional, and Critical Race Critique Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship Videos Created Equal Citizenship and Civic Responsibilities Website 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Primary Documents in American History The Constitution and African Americans Print and Ebooks Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box Promises to Keep: African Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present Reflections on Slavery and the Constitution Videos Amendments 15 and 24: Rights of Citizens to Vote/Poll Tax Are We the People? Dirt and Deeds in Mississippi The Constitution and Women Print and Ebooks 100 years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women’s Political Activism Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s Women and the United States Constitution: History, Interpretation, and Practice Videos Amendment 19: Women’s Right to Vote Generations: American Women Win the Vote Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony: Failure is Impossible Article Suffrage at 100: A Visual History The Constitution and Indigenous Americans Print and Ebooks Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian tribes, and the Constitution Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian nations, and the U.S. Constitution Retained by the People: A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations Videos Tribal Sovereignty: The Constitution is Clear Native Americans and the Constitution Articles American Indians & the United States Constitution The Native American Roots of the U.S. Constitution Native Nations and the Constitution: An Inquiry into “Extra-constitutionality” >