Subverting the Constitution in high school
Excerpt: Parents of high school students would be well advised to look at We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, a book that is the federally-mandated [subsidized!] text for what these students learn about the founding and fundamental principles of this nation...
" Why," (Quist) asks, "should the federal government be involved in authorizing and subsidizing the publishing of a high school textbook?" All others are privately published and compete for use in schools, but We the People does not. Moreover, only one non-government organization was given the contract, the Center for Civic Education. Since Congress did not set up any review process for the book, there is no way to know how accurate it is, or whether it has a particular bias. Unless, of course, you read it!
When you do, you will discover that the "self-evident truths" of the Declaration of Independence have been magically transformed into mere "ideas" from the eighteenth century. The message is that it can be cast aside, or changed in our times. It gets worse, a lot worse. When this textbook looks at the Bill of Rights, those ten amendments that are the very heart of the protections extended to individual American citizens, insuring that government cannot run rampant over them, neither the Second Amendment, nor the Ninth, or Tenth are even mentioned!
The Second Amendment, of course, protects the right of citizens to bear arms. The Ninth and Tenth are called "reserved rights," and require the government to recognize that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." The United States is a republic composed of separate and sovereign republics. The ultimate government of the United States is the people!
Naturally, Quist asks, "How can a textbook teach the meaning of Constitutional government without teaching the Ninth and Tenth Amendments?" and he answers, "It cannot be done."
Thank you.
I will take the time to do that.
We have ours going to a private Christian school - the best of both worlds.