Legal Literacy Frameworks
Legal literacy is the ability to demonstrate one's knowledge of the law, the skills of applying the law, an attitude of legal honesty, and a motivate to cultivate justice for all.
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Consensus Statement: Teaching About Religion in Public SchoolsReligionAndPublicLife.com was inspired by the life’s work of Dr. Charles C. Haynes and the national consensus statements he curated. These statements were endorsed by twenty-one national education, civil liber...
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Constitutional Frameworks
The Principles of Free Exercise and No Establishment The courses presented at ReligionAndPublicLife.com rest on the understanding that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified in 1791)...
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Human Rights Frameworks
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 was born in response to the genocide of over six million Jews in Nazi Germany. And yet, its values were conceived hundreds of years prior by religious communitie...
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Legal Analysis
The faculty at 1791 Delegates apply a series of analytical methods to our legal research. For instance, we use the legal method of “rule synthesis” to present for students the legal standards used by cour...
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Legal Research Methods
The faculty at 1791 Delegates draw upon the field of legal studies to prepare lessons based on rigorous legal research and legal analysis. Dr. Nathan C. Walker, while completing his doctorate in First Amendment ...
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The 3Rs of Religious Liberty
We also emphasize “The 3Rs of Religious Liberty” as articulated in the Williamsburg Charter, which was signed by 100 national leaders on June 22, 1988, in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Virginia...
