Resources
If you are a California educator, administrator, or parent who is interested in bringing We The People, Project Citizen, or any other civic education program to your school, CACE is dedicated to providing facilitation, institutional and financial support for those efforts. For information as to how CACE can help, please contact us.
Emily Voss of the Center for Civic Education provides an overview of We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, a curricular program that explains the fundamental principles of the U.S. Constitution. We the People has been used throughout the United States since 1987.
We the People Introduction
CACE Summer Sessions
Check out past recordings of the annual CACE Summer Sessions we host each year via Zoom to jump start the program for incoming students.
Want your students to attend the next ones live? Contact us.
Check out what a hearing looks like by seeing the experts in action: 2026 We the People National Champions from California, Foothill High School!
Exemplar Hearing
CACE Recommended Resources
Civic Education Resources
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Center for Civic Education: http://civiced.org/
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Generation Citizen: https://generationcitizen.org/
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Center for California Studies: http://www.csus.edu/calst/
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Bill of Rights Institute: http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/
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American Political Science Association: http://www.apsanet.org/
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My Daily Constitution: http://www.mydailyconstitution.org
Philosophy/Scholars
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John Locke - Two Treatises on Government
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Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
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Baron de Montesquieu - The Spirit of the Laws
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John Rawls - Veil of Ignorance, Original Position
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John Stuart Mill - Harm Principle, Principle of Liberty
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Erwin Chemerinsky - Anything about the Constitution/Bill of Rights, especially originalism, federalism, & equal protection (see Selected Works)
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Akhil Reed Amar - Anything about constitutional law, particular government structure & SCOTUS reforms (see recent publications)
Historical Events/Primary Sources
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Constitution: https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution
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Federalist Papers: https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text
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Anti-Federalist Papers (Cato, Centinel, Federal Farmer, Brutus): https://archive.org/details/completeantifede0000unse/
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The Founders Constitution: https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/toc.html - links primary sources about development of Constitutional provisions with those provisions
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Founders’ Library https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library - access to various primary sources
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Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville https://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.htm
Laws, Actions & Policies
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Congressional Research Reports https://crsreports.congress.gov/Home/About - Congressional research about policies and political issues
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Congress.gov https://www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B%22source%22%3A%22legislation%22%7D - has status of bills and legislative history
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Presidential Actions archive https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions - executive orders, memoranda, declarations, etc. issued by Biden
Current Events
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Up First (NPR) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first - daily news podcast (15 min)
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The Daily (NY Times) https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily - daily news podcast (30 min)
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Post Reports (Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/ - daily news podcast (30 min)