President Trump's COVID diagnosis and the Vice Presidential debate last week have thrust the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution into the national conversation. These events and the realization that whoever takes the oath of office on January 20, 2021, will be the oldest man to hold the office of U.S. president in our history prompted us to take a closer look at this topic in this special eLesson.
To encourage civil conversation on the subject, we also decided to make this week's Think the Vote debate prompt: Does the public have a right to know about the health of presidential candidates? Encourage your students to join the debate, and both they and you can win gift cards and BRI swag.
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How can you ensure that local interests are represented in a country as large and diverse as the United States? This question is at the core of understanding the American experiment in self-government and is one of the central themes of our new Homework Help video on the principle of Federalism.
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