[IP] Teaching the Constitution:
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat and the Senate’s
unofficial constitutional scholar, has inserted language into the
final $388-billion spending bill for 2005 requiring that any
educational institution that receives federal aid offer its students
an instructional program on the U.S. Constitution each September 17,
the anniversary of its signing.
Back in the last century when I went to school, we were required to take a unit on “Americanism vs Communism” as part of American History (taken in one’s junior year). I suppose with the end of the Cold War (ten years after I fulfilled the requirement) this has fallen by the website.
I wish Senator Byrd luck in this: I think it’s a worthy effort when the very notion of a secular republic of laws is under attack.