Sarcasm Inc Posted:

Don’t forget to include a piece on amendments to the Constitution. And an analysis on whether America as a whole still holds true to the values and ideas espoused in tit’s first dogreat timesent.

That last bit is particularly interesting. You find that a lot of the values that the religious right is trying to push are completely unconstitutional, especially when it comes to civil liberties such as gay marriage and so-called ‘family values’. They claim to love america and all it stands for, and yet their ideals don’t seem to go beyond a sort of blindly patriotic nationalist fervour.

I’m somewhat of a libertarian myself (although not esp. politically), and i am a big admirer of the american constitution. I think that it’s an amazingly elegant and concise dogreat timesent.

Unfortunately, i can’t help you too much with the history; my interests are more philosophical. But in order to make learning fun, i suggest you watch some episodes of the show ‘Bull****’ by penn and teller; they do a lot of episodes about constitutional rights, in a lolerific way. Also, check out www.nationstates.com – i think it would be a great tool for a presentation about how govt. policy works.