Friday Civics Microdose No. 5

This is where it really gets good!!

I feel like a teacher who midway through the year finally gets to their favorite topic and is just a little too giddy for there not to be eye rolls, but I promise you: the Constitution is way more interesting than you think.

For starters, it’s actually much more relevant to day to day life than we realize. After a good refresher, you start seeing the Constitution everywhere — news, books, movies and TV shows, all of it.

Over the next couple of weeks and using Lindsey’s incredible book How to Raise A Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It), we’re going to microdose just enough of the Constitution to be knowledgeably dangerous.

Constitutional Soundbites

A few basics to kick off the long weekend…

• The Articles of Confederation was the country’s first constitution. It was ultimately replaced because it was seen as too weak for the federal government to do what it needed to do.

• In May 1787, the Constitutional Convention took place to discuss what would replace the Articles of Confederation - and thus the Constitution was born.

• The Constitution is made up of the Preamble (“We the people…”, aka the 52 words we all memorized at one point, which introduces the articles and amendments), 7 Articles and 27 amendments.

• The Articles were intended to be a blueprint for how the framers wanted the government to run the country.

• The Bill of Rights refers to the first 10 amendments of the Constitution (of which most of know the First Amendment and then everything drops off). The Bill of Rights was America’s first set of individual rights.

Get your signed copy of How to Raise A Citizen

Comment or message me that you sent Civic EQ to someone, and I’ll send a signed copy of Lindsey’s book!

Happy Labor Day Weekend and more soon,

Sarah