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The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project is a program designed to mobilize talented upper-level law students to teach courses on constitutional law and juvenile justice in public high schools. Headquartered at the Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project was founded In the fall of 1999 by Professor Jamin Raskin. This movement for constitutional literacy is rooted in the belief that students will profit for a lifetime from learning the system of rights and responsibilities under the U.S. Constitution. Many citizens do not participate and feel disengaged from politics. The teaching fellows work with teachers, administrators and lawyers to teach students their rights as citizens, the strategic benefits of voting, how lawmaking occurs, and other fundamental constitutional processes.〔https://www.wcl.american.edu/marshallbrennan/〕 Since its inception, the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project has had chapters in twenty U.S. law schools, with 18 currently in operation.〔 ==History of the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project== The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project was conceived by law professor Jamin Raskin when he was approached by a group of high school students in Montgomery County, Maryland, who felt their freedom of speech was being violated. The students were part of a communications academy at their school and helped run a talk show on a local cable television station affiliated with the school. They had put together a program called "Shades of Gray," during which they interviewed experts on difficult topics of the day. One particular show included a debate on gay marriage, and the students had lined up two speakers in favor of gay marriage and two against. The program was taped and approved by the teacher who oversaw it.〔https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/?ui=2&ik=5c574e17f8&view=att&th=137d216dce9733ab&attid=0.2&disp=inline&safe=1&zw&saduie=AG9B_P9XOs-lmW-NMa39DY302Lgh&sadet=1340637786537&sads=iYX2FlfOe4w7d42pnaq7gviSqwM〕 However, the show was pulled before it aired. School officials deemed the show "inappropriate" for the station. When the students contacted him, Professor Raskin wanted to go straight to court, but the students asked for help in first exhausting all remedies at the school district level before pursuing litigation. In the end, the students appealed to the school board and won a reversal of the superintendent's censorship of the program. The program aired six times instead of the one or two times it would have aired had the superintendent allowed it in the first place.〔 This experience led Professor Raskin to the realization that high school students, especially urban students, are not taught about the Constitution and how it affects their daily lives. When he compared the resources he had to this need for constitutional literacy, the idea for the project was born. The project officially started in the fall of 1999 with 20 law students who volunteered to teach in eight public schools in Washington D.C. and Montgomery County.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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