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Learn how to be active and responsible in a digital world! Discover how to be responsible with your personal data. This 32-page nonfiction book covers important online rights and responsibilities. Perfect for use in the classroom or at-home learning to explore staying safe on the internet. Includes a short fiction piece to help students relate to the topic and engaging text features such as a glossary, useful discussion questions, and a "Civics in...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Not only is the right to trial by jury outlined in the Constitution, it's also the focus of the Sixth and Seventh Amendments. Why was trial by jury so important to America's founders? How have juries changed since the 18th century? Why are jury trials bec
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
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In early 2018, teen-led March for Our lives events across the United States protested gun violence, demanded change to save lives, and registered voters toward that end. This authoritative exploration of guns, gun violence, and gun control explores the Second Amendment, the history of guns and gun laws in the United States, legal restrictions to gun ownership, and the devastation of mass shootings. Through an objective look at individual versus collective...
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HarperCollins
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2009
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English
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The Terri Schiavo case was a key battle in a larger political struggle over abortion, stem-cell research, physician-assisted suicide, gay rights, and the appointment of federal judges. The religious Right chose to make it a national spectacle because they thought they could win. They were wrong. But there are many more battles to come. Jon Eisenberg, who served as one of the lead attorneys on Michael Schiavo's side, exposes the
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Constitution Papers explains:
• Government people hold other government people to specific constitutionally limited scopes delegated by the people.
• All laws consist of rules and penalties, and nothing else.
• Presidents and governors take full executive responsibility and are fully accountable for personnel, budgets, and results.
• Every government official independently determines what's constitutional, and only does what's constitutional.
•...
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"A timely, compelling, and expertly researched passport to the tech companies that rule today's digital landscape."-Blake Harris, bestselling author of Console Wars and The History of the Future.
In this provocative book about our new tech-based reality, political insider and tech expert Alexis Wichowski considers the unchecked rise of tech giants like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla-what she calls "net states"- and their unavoidable...
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PowerKids Press
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2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution may be one of the most well-known and oft-quoted, and readers will learn why in this information-rich book. Through an in-depth yet age-appropriate examination of the First Amendment, readers will understand why the legal protection of such freedoms as religious expression, speech, and peaceful assembly is so important. Through a close look at the language of the amendment, readers will walk away with...
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Road to Now volume 3
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English
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The quest for personal and political freedoms has shaped much of the past thirty years so why is 'democracy in retreat?'
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In this timely, provocative, and ultimately hopeful book, a widely respected government and tech expert reveals how Facebook, Google, Amazon, Tesla, and other tech giants are disrupting the way the world works, and outlines the growing risk they pose to our future if we do not act to contain them.
Today's major technology companies—Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, and others—wield more power than national governments. Because of their rising...
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Mark Lane has been inspiring social consciousness, influencing history makers, and inciting controversy for more than six decades. In Citizen Lane, he tells the story of his remarkable life, demonstrating how a single dedicated individual can fight for the underdog, provoke the establishment, and trigger change. From the streets to the courtroom, he has been on the front lines in the events that shaped a generation in opposition to government excesses...
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Everyone covers. To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because all of us possess stigmatized attributes, we all encounter pressure to cover in our daily lives. Given its pervasiveness, we may experience this pressure to be a simple fact of social life. Against conventional understanding, Kenji Yoshino argues that the demand to cover can pose a hidden threat to our civil rights. Though we have come to some...