id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_6ripg5mayvfq5dtx5vqd6cuxnm Scott D. Gerber Reordering American Constitutional Law Teaching 1994 3 .pdf application/pdf 2307 148 55 will therefore want to teach constitutional law in the most effective is a welcome trend to offer constitutional law as a two-semester sequence, a trend reflected by text Constitution and, second, that students need a foundation in constitutional powers before they can understand constitutional rights. constitutional law teaching is simple: students learn the material better if rights issues are taught first. questions are more intuitive to students than constitutional powers rules of contract formation, questions of constitutional powers are contract, constitutional rights questions are quite familiar and understandable to students, exposed as before students step into a constitutional law classroom, few, if any, constitutional powers/rights dichotomy. rights in American political culture Thomas Jefferson put the Declaration at the top of his required reading list for government and law students (Hellenbrand 1990, 164). Reordering American Constitutional Law Teaching Reordering American Constitutional Law Teaching Hence, my rationale for teaching constitutional rights ./cache/work_6ripg5mayvfq5dtx5vqd6cuxnm.pdf ./txt/work_6ripg5mayvfq5dtx5vqd6cuxnm.txt