Founding Documents: Bill of Rights

Civics 101

NHPR

History, Government, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to our Constitution. Why do we have one? What does it 'do'? And what does it really, really do? Our guests are Linda Monk, Alvin Tillery, David O. Stewart, Woody Holton, David Bobb, and Chuck Taft. Visit our website, civics101podcast.org, where you can get Chuck's wonderful Bill of Rights SURVIVOR lesson plan, along with our favorite Bill of Rights resources. Each Amendment could be (and has been) its own episode. Except maybe the Third Amendment. So if you don't know them by heart, take two minutes to watch this video. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Civics 101 is supported in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
0:03.8	Hi, this is Chuck Taft at University School of Milwaukee.
0:07.3	I'm unable to get to the phone right now, so if you would please leave your name,
0:10.8	number, brief message, and most importantly, your favorite person in American history,
0:15.5	I will get back to you as soon as I can. Thank you.
0:18.1	Who is this Chuck Taft?
0:19.6	He's a high school history teacher and I called him up because he plays this game with his class called
0:24.4	Bill of Rights Survivor.
0:27.4	How on...
0:29.2	Oh, do you play that?
0:33.4	So Bill of Rights Survivor is obviously based on the fantastic reality TV show survivor
0:38.6	of which I'm a big fan.
0:39.8	The idea is that we're going to use amendments two through ten and then students are going to
0:46.0	try to figure out which amendment should be the sole survivor of Bill of Rights Island.
0:50.9	Does he give the kids torches?
0:52.9	I do, actually.
0:54.8	You know, the little LED type of candles and then I have a Bill of Rights
0:58.6	mug. I also hide immunity idols in the room.
1:02.2	It's like two little slips of paper.
1:04.0	The students are assigned amendments and they present speeches as to why theirs is the most
1:08.4	important. Everybody votes, the losing amendment is called up to the Bill of Rights mug.
1:14.4	When I say, you know, that the tribe is spoken.
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