Copyright (c) 2012 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/mark_brandon Recent documents in Mark E Brandon en-us Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:27:39 PST 3600 http://works.bepress.com/mark_brandon/1 http://works.bepress.com/mark_brandon/1 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:04:35 PDT The point of this article is to consider the implications of civic education in a constitutionalist order. The article begins with a study of the earliest attempts at civic education in North America: the various efforts by Europeans and later by agents of the United States to “civilize” the native tribes through education. The article then presents approaches of three proponents of civic education today – Lynne Cheney, Amy Gutmann, and Stephen Macedo – comparing their aims and methods with programs whose targets were children of the tribes. Finally, the article assesses the compatibility of programs for civic education with the normative commitments and institutional prerequisites of constitutionalism. The article concludes that, if civic education is useful and perhaps even necessary for a constitutionalist system, it also poses fundamental problems.

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