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We the people! / Don Brown.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Big ideas that changed the worldPublication details: New York : Amulet Books, [2022]Description: 124 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781419757389
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 321.8 23/eng/20220923
LOC classification:
  • JC423 .B79 2022
Summary: "Narrated by Abigail Adams, We the People! explores how Athenian and Greek assemblies inspired our legislative and judiciary branches; how Enlightenment ideals of reason, toleration, and human progress shaped our founding fathers' thinking; how Mali's Manden Charter and England's Magna Carta influenced our Bill of Rights; and how the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy directly shaped the US Constitution. Explaining the fundamentals of democracy--liberty, equality, and justice for all--in a kid-friendly way, We the People! is a powerful reminder that power rests in the people's hands"-- Provided by publisher.
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Beverly Middle School GNF 321.8 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 730238

Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-119) and index.

Kirkus Starred, September 2022

School Library Journal, December 2022

"Narrated by Abigail Adams, We the People! explores how Athenian and Greek assemblies inspired our legislative and judiciary branches; how Enlightenment ideals of reason, toleration, and human progress shaped our founding fathers' thinking; how Mali's Manden Charter and England's Magna Carta influenced our Bill of Rights; and how the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy directly shaped the US Constitution. Explaining the fundamentals of democracy--liberty, equality, and justice for all--in a kid-friendly way, We the People! is a powerful reminder that power rests in the people's hands"-- Provided by publisher.

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3-6 Follett School Solutions.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.8 1.0 522467. BR