Did you know Colorado is known as the Centennial State? Or that it is the tallest state? This engaging social studies book is full of fun and interesting facts. Featuring four chapters, this Colorado book focuses on the start of the state, issues in the state, civic engagement, and Casimiro Barela. It includes a glossary, extension activity, guided reading questions, and other exciting features. Civics in Colorado covers the three branches of Colorado government, what it means to be an engaged citizen, the state’s interaction with federal government, and more. This book not only provides meaningful connections to students’ lives, but it also allows them to explore the past, present, and future of Colorado government.
When and how did Colorados government begin? How does it function today, and how can I play a part? Students can discover the answers to these questions and more with this exciting and informative book. Civics in Colorado Highlights: Provides colorful, easy-to-follow pages with relevant civics images Explains the roles of Colorados state leaders, local leaders, and citizens Offers four chapters that demonstrate how basic civics concepts apply to Colorado Includes a glossary, extension activity, guided reading questions, and other useful features Civics in Colorado covers the three branches of Colorado government, what it means to be an engaged citizen, the states interaction with federal government, and more. With this fascinating reader, Colorado educators can emphasize the civic rights and responsibilities of every single student. This book not only provides meaningful connections to students lives, but it also allows them to explore the past, present, and future of Colorado government.
Did you know Colorado is known as the Centennial State? Or that it is the tallest state? This engaging social studies book is full of fun and interesting facts. Featuring four chapters, this Colorado book focuses on the start of the state, issues in the state, civic engagement, and Casimiro Barela. It includes a glossary, extension activity, guided reading questions, and other exciting features. Civics in Colorado covers the three branches of Colorado government, what it means to be an engaged citizen, the state’s interaction with federal government, and more. This book not only provides meaningful connections to students’ lives, but it also allows them to explore the past, present, and future of Colorado government.
Did you know Colorado is known as the Centennial State? Or that it is the tallest state? This engaging social studies book is full of fun and interesting facts. Featuring four chapters, this Colorado book focuses on the start of the state, issues in the state, civic engagement, and Casimiro Barela. It includes a glossary, extension activity, guided reading questions, and other exciting features. Civics in Colorado covers the three branches of Colorado government, what it means to be an engaged citizen, the state’s interaction with federal government, and more. This book not only provides meaningful connections to students’ lives, but it also allows them to explore the past, present, and future of Colorado government.
Did you know Colorado is known as the Centennial State? Or that it is the tallest state? This engaging social studies book is full of fun and interesting facts. Featuring four chapters, this Colorado book focuses on the start of the state, issues in the state, civic engagement, and Casimiro Barela. It includes a glossary, extension activity, guided reading questions, and other exciting features.Civics in Colorado covers the three branches of Colorado government, what it means to be an engaged citizen, the state’s interaction with federal government, and more. This book not only provides meaningful connections to students’ lives, but it also allows them to explore the past, present, and future of Colorado government.
Excerpt from The Government of the People, of the State of Colorado In the preparation of this work, the aim has been, not to present a hand-book of condensed facts, but through interest and suggestion, to stimulate the desire for individual investigation. In accordance with this view, the school library should be provided with the Session Laws, issued by the Secretary of State, since 1887. In this connection a set of Mills' Annotated Statutes (3 vols.) and a set of Hall's History of Colorado (4 vols.) will prove valuable aids. The teacher and pupils should make a collection of primary, convention and election calls, official ballots, blanks used by various officers and the official reports of State and local officers. The pupil should be led to discover the principles of government by his own thought and labor. To assist and direct in this work numerous references have been given to the Constitution. In the study of government nothing can take the place of the Constitution. To use the "Studies" profitably, will require much conscientious preparation on the part of the teacher. The instructor should encourage intelligent observation of all those things with which the citizen has to do in every-day life. That knowledge of government is valueless which does not inspire the pupil, at the proper time, to the performance of civic duties; which does not lead him to realize that obedience to authority is the fundamental basis of patriotism. Criticisms, suggestions and questions that may occur to teachers who use this book will be received in the professional spirit. The author desires to express his obligations to Professor N. M. Fenneman, his colleague, at whose suggestion this book was undertaken, and to others who have kindly aided with advice and information. For the purpose of uniformity, the plan and portions of the text of this book are similar to those in other works of the series of which it is a part. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Survey after survey reveals that many Coloradans believe that the U.S. government is too big, too wasteful, and too intrusive. Yet Colorado is arguably one of the most federally subsidized states in the union, with forests, national parks, military bases, and research laboratories benefiting from the federal government’s largesse. A concise history of Colorado’s constitution and central political institutions, Colorado Politics and Policy offers a probing analysis of the state’s political cultures. It shows how the state, in many ways a template of the deeply contrary politics of the nation, puts political power into the hands of an ever-more-polarized electorate increasingly inclined to put the concerns of government to the test of the citizen-initiative. Colorado Politics and Policy is the result of broad-gauged and sophisticated research which includes author interviews with citizens and officials across the state, three specially commissioned statewide public opinion surveys, and extensive interviews with governors, legislators, judges, lobbyists, interest group leaders, and leading political analysts. This fresh and engaging interpretation is essential reading for those who want to understand Colorado’s major election trends, chief public policy and budget challenges, and this distinctively purple state’s unique political history.
