The Morality of Democratic Citizenship: Goals for Civic Education in the Republic's Third Century

R. Freeman Butts
Center for Civic Education

Contents

• Preface to the Electronic Edition: January 2000

• Preface and Acknowledgments

• Chapter 1 One Clear Mandate: Teach History
  1. Teach History – But What History?
     
  2. What Role for History in the Social Studies?
     
  3. Citizenship as Paramount Theme

• Chapter 2 Another Clear Mandate: Teach the Constitution
  1. Learning from the Bicentennial
     
  2. How We have Taught the Constitution in the Past
     
  3. Whose Constitution Shall We Teach?
     
  4. A Case Study in "Original Intent" – The Establishment Clause
     
  5. Informing Public Debate

• Chapter 3 Underlying All Else: A Defensible Conception of Citizenship
  1. The High Ideal of Citizenship in a Republic
     
  2. The Modern Idea of Democratic Citizenship

• Chapter 4 What the Schools Should Teach: The Twelve Tables of Civism

• Postscript

• Figure I: The Twelve Tables of Civism

Copyright © 1988 by R. Freeman Butts. Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved. Reproduction or transmittal of this publication in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, and utilization of this work in any form in any information storage and retrieval system is forbidden without prior written permission of the author.

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