{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":300,"width":600,"title":"Ep. 235 | Constitutional Chats | Kirk Higgins | How To Get Youth Excited About Civic Education & Why","description":"Why does Constituting America do the work we do in educating young people about the U.S. Constitution and our country\u2019s founding principles?  Think about this.  According to our guest, in a spectral analysis of the Declaration of Independence, in Thomas Jefferson\u2019s original draft, he wrote \u201cour fellow subjects.\u201d  In the draft we all know, he used \u201cour fellow citizens.\u201d  The difference in that word is remarkable.  It shows the change in thinking that we were once subjects to a government but now we are citizens who can dictate our government so that it works for us.  Constituting America exists to educate our next generation so they can understand the importance in that shift in mindset.  Our guest argues that a solid civic education is needed to maintain that free society of citizens, not subjects.  Join our all-star student panel and this week\u2019s; guest, Kirk Higgins, Vice President of Content at the Bill of Rights Institute, for this discussion on educating our next generation. ","author_name":"Constitutional Chats Presented By Constituting America","author_url":"https:\/\/www.constitutingamerica.org","html":"