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Our Constitution a conversation. [videorecording] : - [Philadelphia, Pa.?] : Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, c2005. - 1 video disc (30 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. - 003000 - Sunnylands seminars .

Prepared for Constitution Day 2005. "Created by The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands in partnership with the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania."

Introduction -- Teaching the Constitution -- Why have a constitution? -- Helping to solve problems -- The power of precedent -- Moral values/Decision-making -- Separation of powers -- Relevance today -- Federalism -- Individual liberty vs. security -- Most influential cases -- Court decision making -- Conclusion.

United States Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer talk about the Constitution with high school students and discuss why we have and need a constitution, what federalism is, how implicit and explicit rights are defined and how separation of powers ensures that no one branch of government obtains too much power.


DVD.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Constitution.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Constitutional law--United States.
Federal government--United States.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Politics and government.

LC Class. No.: KF4550 / .O87 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 342.73