Make sustained, documented instruction in the Declaration of Independence (text + grievance record + constitutional follow‑through) an explicit curricular standard for civic education, audited and reported like math and reading outcomes. The requirement would include provenance exercises (how grievances map to institutions), primary‑source fluency, and local civic projects that show how founding commitments operate in practice.
— If adopted, it would reframe debates about national identity, immigration membership standards, and civic cohesion by making the founding creed an operational public policy tool rather than a contested symbolic text.
Richard M. Reinsch II
2026.01.06
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Article argues generations lack knowledge of the Declaration because of education reforms and calls for grounding citizenship in the 'creed'—the piece therefore supplies the policy need and actor (education system, civic leaders) for implementing such a requirement.
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