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[https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/the-u-s-postal-service-was-never-a-business-stop-treating-it-like-one by Chad Marlow] | [https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/the-u-s-postal-service-was-never-a-business-stop-treating-it-like-one by Chad Marlow] | ||
When the Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin as the first Postmaster General, our nation had not yet been founded. The Bill of Rights would not be drafted for another 16 years. Yet nearly two and a half centuries later, the United States Postal Service’s ability to provide every person in America with a private, affordable, and reliable means to exchange information transformed it from a mail delivery service into a baseline for the exercise of American constitutional rights. | When the Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin as the first Postmaster General, our nation had not yet been founded. The Bill of Rights would not be drafted for another 16 years. Yet nearly two and a half centuries later, the United States Postal Service’s ability to provide every person in America with a private, affordable, and reliable means to exchange information transformed it from a mail delivery service into a baseline for the exercise of American constitutional rights. | ||
=====We the People”: Whose Rights Does the Constitution Protect?===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/rights-and-constitution/ by Jesse Hagopian ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | |||
In a time when powerful figures claim to defend the Constitution while undermining it, students must know their rights — not just to pass a test, but to protect themselves. They need to understand their right to remain silent (5th Amendment); their right to birthright citizenship, due process and equal protection of the law for all people (14th Amendment); and their right to speak out and protest injustice (1st Amendment); and their protection from unreasonable searches and seizures (4th Amendment), which is especially critical today as surveillance technologies expand and law enforcement agencies disproportionately target marginalized communities. | |||
