NYSBA

Announcing the New We the People Companion Website

The We the People companion website, civiced.org/wtpcompanion, launched on August 15, provides a variety of resources students and teachers can use to facilitate comprehension of the concepts mentioned in the text. It contains the following features:

  • An Overview of the student edition, the Preface, and the Introduction
  • Full text of all Unit and Lesson Purposes
  • Each Term and Concept to Understand with definitions
  • The complete glossary
  • Brief biographies of each Founder and Framer mentioned in the student text
  • Links to Supreme Court syllabi and opinions for each case described in the student edition
  • Links to the full texts of primary sources mentioned in the text, ranging from the U.S. Constitution to the complete works of Montesquieu
  • Annotated bibliographies for each unit
  • Links to specially selected websites that illuminate concepts mentioned in the student text
  • Links to videos and podcasts related to the content of the student text

Additional features will be added frequently, so be sure to visit the We the People companion website
at civiced.org/wtpcompanion often for the latest dynamic We the People content.