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South Carolina Democrats argued for more than an hour to prevent legislation that would require state universities to teach a “Constitution 101” course Tuesday.

The Republican-proposed bill would update an existing 1924 requirement to teach the course, which USC has hitherto ignored. The legislation has already passed in the Senate, but Democrats in a Tuesday House subcommittee hearing argued it would be too burdensome on students both financially and academically. The bill would require each USC student to take a 3-credit, semester-long class covering America’s founding documents, including the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Federalist Papers.

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Democratic South Carolina State Reps. Ivory Thigpen and Wendy Brawley argued the cost of the course, which Thigpen referred to as “Constitution 101,” may be t***sferred to students. They also pointed to a representative from USC who argued against the bill’s requirement that students pass a comprehensive exam covering the course material to graduate.

Republican South Carolina State Rep. Garry Smith, who is sponsoring the bill in the House, pointed to several classes not required by law that USC could stop offering if it wanted to cut costs, such as “Public Diplomacy and Global Citizenship.”

“I would argue that if you can’t pass a comprehensive exam on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, then maybe you shouldn’t graduate,” Smith said.



The bill is the latest attempt from South Carolina Republicans to get USC to offer a class that is already required by law. The first push came in 2014, which USC President Harris Pastides rebuffed with a letter listing several reasons the university could not offer the class, the law’s mandate to test students for “loyalty to the United States” among them.

“It appears that an update of these statutes is necessary to strike the balance between compliance and application,” Pastides wrote at the time. “The University of South Carolina is committed to working with members of the General Assembly on a favorable solution.”

prometheus

This should be required at every University and College nationwide!

Noraa Loc: Kansas

I was taught the Constitution and Bill of Rights in high school. These were required back then. I guess not anymore.

Liberty Tree

I took them in high school as well.

Trooper745 Loc: Carolina

The intent of the democrats is to insure that lawyers and politicians stay just as completely and willfully ignorant of the building blocks of the USA, as possible.

The hallmark of a democrat is complete ignorance of anything in which they're meddling.

77Reaganite Loc: Athens, GA, United States

They should be tested for their loyalty to the United States we don't want a bunch of enemies of the states running around if you're going to be an Enemy of the State we might as well go ahead and know that your trees and is now so we can go ahead and hang you and get the done with it cuz we don't have to come back and find out we could have hung you a long time ago instead of waiting until you're in your sixties out here trying to dissent against the country if you don't want to down learn the Constitution and get the hell out of the country but don't sit here and try to down destroyed either is what I would tell these far-left kook's

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Part of the unraveling of America began when elementary schools stopped teaching Civics, which included the Constitution, citizens responsibilities (such as v****g ), and how government was supposed to work. Such courses should be mandatory in every school everywhere.

Foreigners seeking to become US citizens must learn these things...............how does it look when naturalized citizens know more about America than natural born citizens?

promilitary

Where the hell have these people been????
My sons had to pass a test on the Constitution to graduate from EIGHTH GRADE!!

Bcon

Be glad that he was in a good school, not run by a left leaning regime