A middle-school? Wow, you can always depend on gummint schools to dumb it down. Didn't know they'd blatantly try to rewrite the Bill of Rights though. And in Texas of all places...

#2 is almost a good re-written translation. Wait... no... not even close.

Lol #3 is my favorite.

According to #5 I don't have to say anything that might make me "see" guilty.  Great!  You'd like to think if they're going to the effort of tampling our Bill of Rights, they could at least go the extra mile and proofread the darn thing.  Congratulations, government, you have lived down to my expectations again.

This can't be real. There's no way.

I don't like it. It's wrong on several points.

Here's a new version:

1) Individuals can worship, speak, broadcast, write and get together any way they want. The government can't tell us how to do any of these things. We can sue the government and tell it how we want things to change.

2) Individuals have the right to own and carry guns, swords and other weapons to protect themselves. They also have the right to form groups to protect themselves against the government and foreign threats, but the government has some power to oversee such groups.

3) It is the government's responsibility to take care of military and law enforcement personnel, and these officials may make no demands on law-abiding individuals.

4) The government will not search any person's home, car, property, person, bank statements, other papers, electronic records or any result of individual efforts without first getting permission from a judge, by providing the judge with a reason to suspect the person is guilty of a crime and the exact places or items to be searched.

5) Any individual not actively serving in the military cannot be accused and convicted of a crime, unless there is enough evidence to convict them and a jury agrees. Once found innocent of a specific unlawful action, an individual cannot be accused of the same action again. The government can't make an individual talk if he or she doesn't want to. The government must give an individual every opportunity to defend himself. The government cannot take private property from someone unless it pays a market rate for it and proves there is a public use for it.

6) Every individual accused of a crime has the right to a public trial by jury as soon as possible in the same area where the crime was committed. The government must tell the individual about the crime he or she is accused of, give the individual a chance to hear the witnesses of the crime tell their story, give the individual a chance to call his or her own witnesses, and pay for a lawyer for the individual if he or she can't afford it.

7) People can sue each other for money, and when the argument involves a claim to more than $20, the individuals may have a jury in a court decide who is right.

8) No individual's punishment can be cruel, unusual or unreasonable.

9) Individuals have other natural rights that are not listed in the constitution.

10) The constitution explains specifically what powers the federal government has. Any powers not given to the federal government in the constitution belong to the separate states or to the people.

While not quite as bad, even WhiteHouse.GOV has it wrong, claming the Rights protected by the Bill of Rights only apply to citizens, and claiming the 2nd Amendment GIVES the right to keep and bear arms...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/our-government/the-constitution#bill

This may be the worst thing I have ever seen.

I found a possible source, someone submitted a Lesson Plan to Teacherlinx.com a couple of months ago.

The site requires login, but you can view the Cached view from Google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22we+can+get+permission+to+own+weapons+to+protect+ourselves%22+Teacherlinx&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

Found this link in the Cached view to the original document:
http://www.teacherlinx.com/attachments/p848_Copy_(2)_of_The_Bill_of_Rights_Rap.doc

the right to ask for permission to own a gun makes me laugh.  

"The police...usually need permission to search our homes."

I'm sufficiently disturbed. We the People, anyone?

well, while we're rewriting the bill of rights, here is mine:

article i. if you try to take our guns, we will kill you.

article ii. go get a real job.

Good grief!!  First let me say that I do not support what our current administration is doing.  I am Not a nmember of the Democratic Party and I do NOT believe in big government.  I am a staunch supporter of The Constitution of The United States of America and think that 99% of our legislatures need to be tossed out on their behinds.

That having been said... what the heck kind of article is this.  Are we not bombarded with enough lies every day from Bureacrats and media.  This article is so very misleading and so so wrong.  It is a part of many government class curriculums to set up mock goverments, interpret or reinterpret the Bill of Rights, other laws and issues, etc...  Just as there are mock trials to learn about our Judicial system.

Both of my children went through this exact same exercise in two different schools in two different states.  I receive Campaign for Liberty articles on my facebook page because I believe in it's mission but this is just wrong.  It is incomplete, unfair, misleading, and inaccurate. 

It is so very true that we must read and listen to EVERYthing with scrutiny, regardless of the source.

And just one more thing for Ms. Kristian who uses the term "government-run" middle school.  All public schools receive government funding, as do some private schools, but there is NO "government-run" school... at least not yet.

I think this is something written by one of the kids; not something used by the school.  Look at Amendment 5.  "see guilty", instead of "seem guilty".  That doesn't look like something a teacher prepared. 

Government schools are largely run by the Federal and state Departments of Education. (e.g. the NY department of education says on its website it operates the public schools in New York City) Schoolboards also come into play, but some sort of governments runs these monstrosities at almost all levels.

This doesn't mean every public school is bad, there are good ones. (at the collegiate level, I think UCSF has an oustanding medical program, and George Mason one of the best economics programs) As a whole, however, every objective measure shows these institutions failing miserably and instilling (regimenting) false, pro-state attitudes in its attendees. Private (which is still far too close to the state, but more independent) and homeschooled kids trounce their government-educated competitors in test scores for a reason.

While Bonnie is my fellow blogger and friend, I'd be open to a substantive attack on this post, should you be able to make it. (and on any post on any site) But so far your case appears to be semantic and inaccurate.

Has anyone ever seen Jay Lenos "jaywalking" episodes? Most of the people he queries in these segments have no idea who George Washington is, never mind any other d___  thing about our country or it's government. It seems to me that if a subject is any deeper than the current gossip, hairstyles, or make-up, it does not qualify as worthy to discuss. I have 3 children, and at different occasions have all told me that everything "bad" they ever learned was learned in public school. Two of my kids, I allowed to get the GED certificates because they weren't learning anything in public school anyway. They went to college to get the document that allows for a decent job, one that they could have done without the document in the first place...don't get me started!! This has been going on since I was a student. I had the audacity to go to the library and search out the true history of the American Indians, and brought up in class that the "history" books they were using to "teach" us were totally incorrect. I was punished for this activity by being sent to the, wait for it...... library for the remaining time left in that class. Go figure.

Orygunner, Did you ever watch the Matrix? Where there is a front door there is a back door.

http://nomedia.110mb.com/www.teacherlinx.com_attachments.html

A middle-school? Wow, you can always depend on gummint schools to dumb it down. Didn't know they'd blatantly try to rewrite the Bill of Rights though. And in Texas of all places... Kartenlegen