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Today is Constitution Day!
This is one of the holidays I was rather vague on as a child, sort of like Lag B’Omer or Tu B’Shvat. Whereas the overwhelming majority of US citizens need not learn the finer points of the Jewish holiday cycle, we should all know about Constitution Day.
AP via Yahoo News – Study: Teens blank on Constitution Day
Constitution Day was created by Congress in 2004. It was the brainchild of Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., who carries a copy of the Constitution in his pocket. The law requires any school and college receiving federal money to teach about the Constitution on or about Sept. 17.
National Archives’ background on Constitution Day: http://tinyurl.com/ddqhy
First Amendment survey: http://www.firstamendmentfuture.org
Constitution Day: http://www.constitutionday.us
Hillel Foundation Text Studies in the Tradition of Talmud:
The Declaration of Independence
The First Amendment
United States of America Constitution Preamble
Teaching Tolerance: The ABCs of ‘We the People’
4 Responses to “Today is Constitution Day!”
Excellent post, Holly!
I don’t quite get what the Talmudi has to do with Condtituion Day/ though.
Talmudic studies, like familiarity with the Bible, the Koran and other fonts of wisdom could boraden all our minds, but that the Talmud should be part of Understanding the Constituion or the other tenets of our republic is a stretch.
Domajot, the Hillel text studies are just one interesting way of looking at our foundational documents.
Holly,
That’s why I said the post was execellent. You can never know too much.
By the same token, the Talmud is only one of many avenues for broadening understanding. Personally, I think knowing more about the Founding Fathers and their differences in outlook and opinions would be the primary requirement for understanding the Constiutution and how it came to be.
As it is, with the lack of knowlege, even knowing the basics of what is in the Constitution would be a giant leap forward.