From the Harford County Republican Women’s Club:
(Bel Air, MD) – The Harford County Republican Women’s Club (HCRW) is seeking entries for its annual Constitution Day Contest; a contest designed to support the 2004 federal law requiring any institution receiving federal dollars to provide educational programming on the history of the Constitution on September 17 of each year. Since the contest’s inception, students from Fallston Middle, Edgewood High School and home-schooled students have won prizes for their efforts with each taking home $500.
The group’s Constitution Day committee recognizes Harford County has encouraged students to study the history of this country through its’ long-standing Patriot Program. The HCRW’s focus on students and Constitution Day is an effort to support that education and to help students cement their understanding of their role as a citizen.
Public, private, parochial and home-schooling students from throughout Harford County are all encouraged to participate. $1,500 in prizes will be shared among the winners chosen in the elementary, middle and high school categories.
The HCRW believes students of every age grasp that the Constitution is the set of rules that we live by. Elementary aged students who wish to participate are asked to create a collage that reflects what freedom means to them. Middle school students have the choice of two essay topics on the Constitution and society. Students in high schools will be required to develop a lesson plan on the Constitution that can be shared with their peers.
Entry deadline is September 11, 2013. Contest requirements and details may be found at http://hcrw.org or e-mail syosua1401@aol.com for information.
Harford’s Republican Women Constitution Day contest for students http://hcrw.org/Education%20Issues.htm
Elementary aged students who wish to participate are asked to create a collage that reflects what freedom means to them. Collages must be no greater than poster board size.
Middle school students have the choice of two essay topics on the Constitution and society.
1. Patrick Henry wrote, “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
2. Which do you think creates a more prosperous, unified, free, and moral society: free market capitalism or socialism? Defend your opinion, addressing all four characteristics.
Students in high schools will be required to develop a lesson plan on the Constitution that can be shared with their peers:
Patrick Henry wrote, “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
–Compare and contrast how free market capitalism and how socialism affects a unified, free, and moral society.
Alexis de Tocqueville, French politician and author of Democracy in America, equated socialism to slavery. “…one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.”
–What does de Tocqueville mean by this?
–Compare and contrast what ‘equality’ meant to the Founding Fathers versus what it means to a socialist.
May I suggest that you start with an educational program for the Democrats of this state.
Sure thing if you will enroll Jesse Bane in a portion of the class that deals with integrity.
Let’s take a vote on whether Bane belongs there. Oh, wait a minute, we already had two and he is still sheriff.
Yep, so great that he bought the first election by selling any integrity he may have had and then almost got taken out by an unknown the second time. Bad news for you jbane or jedgar. It will be a long walk of shame out the door.
Oh, I am so scared.
Wow . This has to be a record for how fast and how far a thread can spin off from anything to do with the article at hand. How about a little credit and maybe one positive comment about what sounds like a really good contest for a great cause.