Lessons from Constitution Day 2025

by Lynne M. Taylor, American Policy Center, ©2025

(Sep. 24, 2025) — Recently, Americans celebrated Constitution Day. Each year, schools across our nation take some time out of their lessons to review concepts, facts and figures surrounding this ever important and vital framing document.

For some ages, the concepts of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, free speech and other privileges the US Constitution protects; is not too difficult. But what do you do when those ages are anywhere between 4 and 7 years of age? IS there a way to help them understand? Sure there is!!

For the remainder of this article, I’ll be sharing personal experiences from my Constitution Day volunteer trip to an International Baccalaureate (IB) School.
The images you see are all from my personal collection.

The Books:
In the thumbnail image, you saw the books I used. These were all available from my local public library. As you know, public libraries are taxpayer supported. However, when I opened each book there was one glaring error. The Constitution created a democracy!

In the image above, you may see the words in bold that say “Creating Democracy”. The irony is that the image of The Constitution on the opposing page clearly shows “We the People”.

As a former educator, I cannot express the level of disgust of not only the book’s author for this error, but the publishing company and the teachers I was working with that day. Not one person noticed anything wrong!

What can we do to correct that The Constitution created a Republic?!

Use a game! Too simple, you say? Not really. Games for all ages can help reinforce or introduce ways of thinking. As we know, thinking influences beliefs.

Read the rest here.