Happy Constitution Day every day! Today Americans argue about the size and power of government, the guarantee of civil liberties and rights, the trade offs between security and liberty. The roots of these conversations and disagreements can be traced back to the Constitutional Convention and can even be found within the Constitution and Bill of Rights, themselves.
The College Board infuses the AP Government course with 14 foundational documents, but the thread that ties the entire course together is The U.S. Constitution including The Bill of Rights.
The promises of democracy, equality, justice and liberty established in the The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are threads we follow throughout the AP Government and Politics course.