Jason Ross is vice president of education programs at The Bill of Rights Institute in Arlington, Va. He designed the curriculum for and directs a college-level introduction into America's founding principles geared toward high school students and directs a series of academic seminars for high school teachers that the institute co- sponsors with the Liberty Fund. He also is an adjunct professor of history at Pepperdine University's Washington, D.C., campus. We spoke by phone Tuesday as reports surfaced that even peaceful protests earned notice in anti-terrorism bulletins distributed by Gov. Ed Rendell's homeland security director.
ARLINGTON, Va. - High school students and their teachers are invited to participate in the Bill of Rights Institute's sixth annual Being an American Essay Contest, the largest contest of its kind in the country. The contest explores the founding principles outlined in the Constitution and is administered by the Bill of Rights Institute, a nonprofit educational organization in the Washington, D.C., areadevoted to educating young people about the Constitution and founding principles. The 2011-2012 contest is sponsored by the History Channel.
ARLINGTON, Va. - The deadline for high-school students and their teachers to submit essays for the Bill of Rights Institute's national Being an American Essay Contest is fast approaching. The contest asks students to explore the founding principles outlined in the Constitution by answering the question: "How does the Constitution establish and maintain a culture of liberty? The contest, which is the largest high-school essay competition of its kind, totaling more than 80,000 submitted essays, is administered by the Bill of Rights Institute, a nonprofit educational organization in the Washington, D.C. area devoted to educating young people about the Constitution and founding principles.
Today is the national Bill of Rights Day. This commemoration is necessary to help renew appreciation for liberties threatened by Big Government. The Virginia-based Bill of Rights Institute is encouraging Americans to take 10 minutes today to read the Bill of Rights and reacquaint themselves with the freedoms it recognizes. A new website, BillofRightsDay.com, provides information about these amendments to the Constitution, which were ratified on this day in 1791. In times when a new constitutional consciousness seems to be sweeping the American political system and when the federal government threatens to burst many of its constitutional limits, this focus on the basic charter of our liberties is most welcome.
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The Bill of Rights Institute, a nonprofit organization in Arlington, holds an essay contest every year to help high school students think about citizenship, freedom and serving America through the lenses of America's Founding Fathers and founding documents. The institute began the Being an American essay contest in September 2006 to help students gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be an American citizen. Students are required to write a 750-word essay answering "What civic value do you believe is most important to being an American?" In their explanation, they must discuss a founding document, a figure from American history and ways the student personally put the value into practice.
A powerful example of this is the release of publicly available information about Justice Scalia by Fordham law students.15 The new landscape of information accessibility and flow calls into question whether the common good requires new principles, controls, and regulation.16 Most of the debate and writing that addresses the conflict between privacy and public records has centered on the issue of court records17 and the issue of community notification laws for sex offenders, also called Megan's Laws.18 Dan Solove notes that courts can seal court records if the importance of confidentiality in a particular context outweighs the need for public access;19 a trial court can permit a plaintiff to proceed with the use of a pseudonym;20 and courts can permit anonymous juries.21 However, mo...
... State Courts and the Justice Management Institute prepared draft guidelines for public access to cou...
The Capital-Journal Jackson Sittenauer, a Hayden High School junior, is one of three winners in the "Being an American" essay contest sponsored by the Bill Of Rights Institute.
High school students and their teachers are invited to compete for nearly $115,000 in prize money by participating in the Bill of Rights Institute's fifth annual Being an American Essay Contest. Top prize winners and their teachers will also receive all- expenses paid trips to the capital.
A Manheim Township High School student beat out more than 50,000 participants for a top spot in America's largest high school essay contest, the Bill of Rights Institute announced recently. Michael Hibshman earned second place and $2,500 in the fourth annual Being an American Essay Contest sponsored by the institute, a nonprofit near Washington, D.C.
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