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Constitution Day: September 17

Constitution Day 2011

Lesson #1: Grades 8-12, "Tracing the Path of the Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment"
Lesson #2: Grades 3-5, "The Constitution vs. the Articles of Confederation"
Lesson #3: Grades 3-5, "Mock Constitutional Convention"
Lesson #4: Grades 8-12, "Congress, the President, and the Constitution: Then and Now"
Lesson #5: Grades 8-12, "Freedom of Speech...Always Protected?"
Lesson #6: Grades 11-12, "Federalism vs. States' Rights"

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Constitution Day (previous years)

2010: 15th and 17th Amendments

2009: Quiz--test your knowledge!