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I just finished reading your article "The Danger of a Federal Curriculum" (October 17 issue) about the congressionally mandated Constitution Day, and it deeply affected me. I have recently had a personal experience with the new "Unconstitutional Day" (as the article puts it).
I am currently attending Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Since I plan to study law, and especially constitutional law, I was naturally quite interested, though skeptical, about what my school would do to implement the new law. My skepticism turned out to be well-founded. The event put on by the school was a speech by Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Hon. E J. Williams.
His speech consisted mainly of "debunking myths" about the Constitution. I won't go into details, but essentially there were six "myths" that he dealt with, and he ...