Constitutional Literacy: A Twenty-First Century Imperative

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This book considers the status of constitutional literacy in the United States along with ways to assess and improve it. The author argues that pervasive constitutional illiteracy is a problem for both law enforcement agencies and for ordinary citizens. Based on the author’s decades of teaching in law enforcement agencies around the country, this book argues for the moral and pragmatic value of constitutional literacy and its application in twenty-first century society.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137567987
ISBN-10: 1137567988
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: XI, 241 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Nature of Constitutional Literacy.- Chapter 3: The Lack of Constitutional Literacy.- Chapter 4: The Value of Constitutional Literacy.- Chapter 5: Assessing Constitutional Literacy.- Chapter 6: Improving Constitutional Literacy.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Notă biografică

Christopher Dreisbach is Associate Professor, Faculty Lead, and Director of applied ethics and humanities for the Division of Public Safety Leadership in the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He lectures on ethics for law enforcement agencies and has published widely on ethics, logic, education, dreams, and Collingwood.

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This book considers the status of constitutional literacy in the United States along with ways to assess and improve it.The author argues that pervasive constitutional illiteracy is a problem for both law enforcement agencies and for ordinary citizens. Based on the author’s decades of teaching in law enforcement agencies around the country, this book argues for the moral and pragmatic value of constitutional literacy and its application in twenty-first century society.

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Identifies eight levels of constitutional literacy, thus offering an ostensive definitionthat exists in a continuum from basic literacy to the scholarly literacy that one would expect of the Supreme Court justices

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