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Bill$ of right$

If these students ran the Mint, you'd be able to brush up on the Constitution every time you handled a dollar bill.

By Victoria Irwin

Special to The Christian Science Monitor

[Excerpt]

Students at Liberty Middle School in Virginia's Hanover County would like to put the United States Constitution in the hands of all Americans. Literally.

In fact, they'd like people around the world to be able to read about our blueprint for democracy. Their simple plan? Print an abbreviated version of the Constitution and our Bill of Rights on the back of our paper currency.

Sparked by a civics lesson three years ago, students in Randy Wright's government class began a drive to place the condensed Constitution on the back of the dollar bill. Today the project has been handed down to succeeding classes, while graduates of the course, now students at nearby Patrick Henry High School, join them to promote the idea through presentations, letter writing, a website, and other activities.

"People all over the world will know about our rights and our Constitution," seventh-grader Sadé Rose says with pride, envisioning a day when the "Liberty Bill" becomes reality. Her classmate, Anne Brooking Harris, adds that she likes the idea because "even many American-born citizens don't know much about our Constitution, and it will be right on the back of the money we carry!"



-- Rich (howe9@shentel.net), March 13, 2001

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This has been around for 2 years. Still waiting....

-- KoFE (your@town.USSA), March 13, 2001.

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