Thank you Hatton Sumners Foundation for making this year's camp possible! Without your support, we would not be able to provide our amazing students the opportunity to learn more about Constitutional voting rights. Voting provides for the existence of a strong democratic republic that enables a diverse market place of ideas salient to the healthy sustenance of our nation and form of government. Within this market place, free individuals are able to engage and measure ideas that are different from their own thus allowing for falsehoods to be separated from fact. Our camp will focus on the following eight components:
1) understand the importance in the fundamental relationship between popular sovereignty and representative government in protecting against threats to liberty and arbitrary government;
2) know and examine Supreme Court case law regarding emerging voting rights issues;
3) understand the history and significance of the Electoral College, the 14th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments and the Electoral College;
4) Practice case briefing;
5) apply their knowledge to novel factual scenarios regarding emerging issues associated with voting, civic participation, and representation;
6) evaluate, take, and defend positions on challenges associated with voting, civic participation, and representation;
7) create and present a project that will be used to engage and educate the public on challenges associated with voting, civic participation, and representation;
8) facilitate a voting registration drive.