Reply #13: In High School believe it or not...(1995-1999) [View All]

[NNguyenMD]

we were never required to ever read the constitution in its entirety. Nor were we even asked to memorize or learn to hear the bill of rights. It seemed more focused on constutional theory, so we compared differing views of the constitution by historians like Charles Beard and Arthur M. Schlesinger.

So we pretty much did a fly overview of the articles of confederation and the constitution. But by that stage of American history I suppose it was assumed that you knew all the basics. Though, big picture theories on constitutionality, like strict constitutionalist, and loose constitutionalist, doesn't require you to remember the bit by bit details of the text of the constitution though.