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Lots of comments here about teachers getting it wrong when it comes to teaching about the Bill of Rights especially when it comes to Amendment 2.
My daughter is taking two AP courses this year at a charter school here in Ma. Her Advanced Placement US History instructor has his PHD in History, we are very fortunate to have him on the staff. Anyways, he sent some lesson plans via email so I read through it. When discussion the Constitution and the Bill of Rights he stated the following:
[FONT=Bell Gothic Std Black, serif]AmendmentII[/FONT]
[FONT=Bell Gothic Std Black, serif]Awell regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a freeState, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not beinfringed.[/FONT]
[FONT=Bell Gothic Std Black, serif]Notes:TheSecond Amendment guarantees an individual right to own and possessarms. It enshrines a very ancient English right into theConstitution. Many of the founders, such as Jefferson and Washington,owned large amounts of guns and rifles. Most farmers had guns and atan early age, young boys would be trained to shoot rifles – both tohunt and to protect farms from wild animals or Indians. The right toown and possess arms was a right Englishmen had inscribed in law inthe 1100s. It was also contained in the [/FONT][FONT=Bell Gothic Std Black, serif]1689Bill of Rights[/FONT][FONT=Bell Gothic Std Black, serif]. The founders believed that the right to own arms was essential tothe maintenance of liberty and security. A government, theybelieved, that could take away the arms of its citizens, could reducethem to slavery. The ownership of firearms distinguished the freefrom the un-free. Militia’s, in turn, encouraged local citizens tounite in defense of their town and state. [/FONT]
Dig it.
My daughter is taking two AP courses this year at a charter school here in Ma. Her Advanced Placement US History instructor has his PHD in History, we are very fortunate to have him on the staff. Anyways, he sent some lesson plans via email so I read through it. When discussion the Constitution and the Bill of Rights he stated the following:
[FONT=Bell Gothic Std Black, serif]AmendmentII[/FONT]
[FONT=Bell Gothic Std Black, serif]Awell regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a freeState, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not beinfringed.[/FONT]
[FONT=Bell Gothic Std Black, serif]Notes:TheSecond Amendment guarantees an individual right to own and possessarms. It enshrines a very ancient English right into theConstitution. Many of the founders, such as Jefferson and Washington,owned large amounts of guns and rifles. Most farmers had guns and atan early age, young boys would be trained to shoot rifles – both tohunt and to protect farms from wild animals or Indians. The right toown and possess arms was a right Englishmen had inscribed in law inthe 1100s. It was also contained in the [/FONT][FONT=Bell Gothic Std Black, serif]1689Bill of Rights[/FONT][FONT=Bell Gothic Std Black, serif]. The founders believed that the right to own arms was essential tothe maintenance of liberty and security. A government, theybelieved, that could take away the arms of its citizens, could reducethem to slavery. The ownership of firearms distinguished the freefrom the un-free. Militia’s, in turn, encouraged local citizens tounite in defense of their town and state. [/FONT]
Dig it.