History of the US Constitution: Difference between revisions
From WikiDemocracy
Jump to navigationJump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 25: | Line 25: | ||
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. 2025. 36 pages. | Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. 2025. 36 pages. | ||
This is a unit with three lessons. The first invites students to think critically about key issues that confronted the framers of the Constitution — examining the perspectives not only of the elites attending the actual Constitutional Convention, but also of enslaved African Americans, poor white farmers, and white workers. | This is a unit with three lessons. The first invites students to think critically about key issues that confronted the framers of the Constitution — examining the perspectives not only of the elites attending the actual Constitutional Convention, but also of enslaved African Americans, poor white farmers, and white workers. | ||
=====We the Elites: Why the U.S. Constitution Serves the Few===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/we-the-elites/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | |||
This collection of essays exposes the U.S. Constitution for what it really is — a rulebook to protect capitalism for the elites. | |||
