Fault lines in the Constitution : the framers, their fights, and the flaws that affect us today
Edition
Third edition.
Publication Information
Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Publishing Company Inc., 2025.
Physical Description
318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Audience
Grades 4-6 Peachtree Publishing Company Inc.
Summary
"Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in the US Constitution. This book explores 21 of the fault lines that were created in 1787 and are still causing problems today"--
Notes
"Revised edition-- contains two new chapters and important updates!"--Cover.
Contents
- Preamble
- Part I: How bills become (or, more likely, don't become) law
- Part II: Hello, can you hear me?
- Part III: If America threw a party, would you be let in?
- Part IV: "Hurrah! I'm 18. Finally I can vote for the president" "Not so fast."
- Part V: Can the president really do that?!
- Part VI: Who's running America?
- Part VII: Emergency! Emergency!
- Part VIII: Keeping pace with the times
- Post-amble.
Subjects
- Constitutional law > United States > Juvenile literature.
- Civics > Juvenile literature.
- Constitutional history > United States > Juvenile literature.
- Democracy > Juvenile literature.
- Constitutional law > United States.
- Constitutional law.
- Civics.
- United States > Politics and government > Juvenile literature.
- United States > Politics and government.
- United States > Constitution.
- United States. Constitution > Juvenile literature.
- United States. Constitutional Convention (1787) > Juvenile literature.