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Constitution Explained: What Does Congress Do?

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A short-form series walking students through the U.S. Constitution — the branches, the amendments, voting rights, federalism, and why the Framers made the document so difficult to change.

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Constitution Explained: What Does Congress Do?

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Constitution Explained: What Does Congress Do?

With the creation of the U.S. Constitution, the Founders flipped the script for how governments had always functioned around the world. Rather than anointing a king or a ruler, they wanted to give power to the people.

Constitution Explained: What Is the President’s Job?

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Constitution Explained: What Is the President’s Job?

How much power should the President have? That was a big question on the minds of the writers of the Constitution. A Chief Executive without enough power means a government too weak to do its job.

Constitution Explained: How the Founders Got It Done

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Constitution Explained: How the Founders Got It Done

When America became independent, it was hardly a strong, unified country. Every state had its own government, its own culture, and its own ideas. Bringing everyone together under one national government would be very difficult. Maybe even impossible.

Constitution Explained: What Is a Republic?

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Constitution Explained: What Is a Republic?

America declared its independence from England in 1776. Then it fought—and won—a war to secure that independence. So what would America do with its newfound freedom? The first step was to establish a government.

Constitution Explained: Is the Supreme Court Supreme?

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Constitution Explained: Is the Supreme Court Supreme?

The Framers of the Constitution thought that the Judicial Branch of the new American government would be the weakest of the three branches. But 250 years later, that’s not how it turned out. What happened?

Constitution Explained: Why We Need a Bill of Rights

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Constitution Explained: Why We Need a Bill of Rights

Freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, the right to remain silent. You might think these well-known “guaranteed rights” are included in the original U.S. Constitution. Surprisingly, they’re not. So where did they come from?

Constitution Explained: Fifty States, One Nation

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Constitution Explained: Fifty States, One Nation

The first three articles of the U.S. Constitution establish the three branches of government. But the Framers knew there was still more work to do. How did they make the Constitution truly “of the people, by the people, and for the people”?

Constitution Explained: Civil Rights for All Americans

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Constitution Explained: Civil Rights for All Americans

You’ve probably heard it asked before: didn't the Framers own slaves? Some did. But the Constitution they created was fundamentally opposed to slavery. How did the Framers set the stage to eliminate slavery in the future?

Constitution Explained: Voting Rights, Taxes, and More

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Constitution Explained: Voting Rights, Taxes, and More

Why did the Framers make the U.S. Constitution so hard to change? After all, of more than 11,000 amendments proposed since the birth of the United States, only 27 have been ratified. What did each of these amendments do?

Constitution Explained: Living Our Values

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Constitution Explained: Living Our Values

America was founded on the ideas of life, liberty, and equality under the law. But ideas are one thing: living up to them is another. How did the Framers lay the groundwork for America to become the bastion of freedom it is today?

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