Law-related education.The key to making civic education, including law-related education, really work is to make it part of the curriculum taught by professional teachers. For this reason, the most important article in the November 2006 special issue regarding law-related education was one the written by John Doyle John Doyle may refer to:
To make civic education really happen, the Bar must go beyond merely offering guest speakers or lawyer liaisons. Frankly, the single best thing the Bar could do would be to to lobby for adequate funding and inclusion in the curriculum of the programs like those that John and Stephen list. Finally, let me say that we are extremely lucky to have a chief justice who has made civic education one of his priorities. Thomas W. Logue, Miami Although the subject article ("The American Voter VOTER. One entitled to a vote; an elector. ," November 2006) contains important data about who is and who is not voting, it goes over board, into the depths of non sequitur non sequitur (nahn sek [as in heck]-kwit-her) n. Latin for "it does not follow." The term usually means that a conclusion does not logically follow from the facts or law, stated: "That's a non sequitur." , in the paragraph titled "Reasons for Not Voting." Specifically, that paragraph begins by identifying the number of millions who did register to vote in 2004 (142), then proceeds to catalogue the percentages of that population who did not vote and the reasons why. All is smooth sailing until the last sentence, which reads, in pertinent PERTINENT, evidence. Those facts which tend to prove the allegations of the party offering them, are called pertinent; those which have no such tendency are called impertinent, 8 Toull. n. 22. By pertinent is also meant that which belongs. Willes, 319. part, "Other reasons included ... confusion or uncertainty about registration requirements...." But that reason for not voting deals with the population who did not even register to do so, a citizen segment having nothing to do with the 142 million under the microscope of the paragraph. We have a right to expect better reporting from the authors, leaders in the League of Women Voters League of Women Voters, voluntary public service organization of U.S. citizens. Organized in 1920 in Chicago as an outgrowth of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, it had as its original nucleus the leaders of the latter organization. organization. Ted Baumgardner, Winter Park Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : In William C. Ballard's article, "Who Decides Whether to Build It Higher, the Condominium condominium In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common. Community or the Courts?" on page 60 of the December Journal, the phrase, "the improvements required to ensure the ground floor units are not flooded might require a periodical periodical, a publication that is issued regularly. It is distinguished from the newspaper in format in that its pages are smaller and are usually bound, and it is published at weekly, monthly, quarterly, or other intervals, rather than daily. special assessment" should read: "... the improvements required to ensure that the ground floor units are not periodically flooded might require a special assessment...." The Journal regrets the editorial error. |
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