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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/conscience-and-the-constitution/ by Frank Abe ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/conscience-and-the-constitution/ by Frank Abe ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | ||
In 1944, 63 young men stood trial for resisting the draft at the concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Seven leaders were accused of conspiring to encourage them. The dissidents served two years in prison, and for the next 50 were written out of the popular history of Japanese America. | In 1944, 63 young men stood trial for resisting the draft at the concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Seven leaders were accused of conspiring to encourage them. The dissidents served two years in prison, and for the next 50 were written out of the popular history of Japanese America. | ||
=====The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/the-constitutional-bind/ by ZINN EDUCATION EDUCATION] | |||
Some in the United States today worry that the Federal Constitution is ill-equipped to respond to mounting democratic threats and may even exacerbate the worst features of U.S. politics. Yet for as long as anyone can remember, the Constitution has occupied a quasi-mythical status in U.S. political culture, which ties ideals of liberty and equality to assumptions about the inherent goodness of the text’s design. The Constitutional Bind explores how a flawed document came to be so glorified and how this has impacted life in the United States. | |||
