LNGenZ News for Kids: Civics

The Constitutional Convention was a meeting of delegates from the 13 original states. Most of the attendees didn’t plan to create a new system of government – they intended to discuss and fix the old Articles of Confederation they had… Read More

Before there was the United States, colonists lived in America but were still ruled by their home countries. After a while, the British colonies of England felt the king was treating them badly, so they decided to stop following their… Read More

Whenever the intellectuals discuss the success of Western civilization and what inspired the most remarkable society in human history, the experts talk about ideas planted in ancient Greece and Rome and how the French, British, and Americans cultivated these thoughts… Read More

The U.K.’s Prince Harry has once again to stirred up American media, this time for calling the First Amendment “bonkers” on a podcast with actor Dax Shepard. News outlets mostly ignored the fact that he and his host had been discussing how… Read More

A republic is a government being ruled by representatives voted for and elected by the citizens. Although the people do not govern the nation themselves, they exercise their power by choosing elected officials to represent their needs and decisions in… Read More

Article III of the Constitution created the United States Supreme Court, but it didn’t give much detail about how the Court should actually operate. Many of the rules are decided by the court itself, but the number of justices is… Read More

The Western world became a beacon of justice, freedom, and prosperity because of the ideas in the Age of Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason. This was an intellectual movement in the 17th and 18th centuries that eventually… Read More

When the thirteen colonies of British America declared their independence from King George III, it sparked the Revolutionary War. The American leaders wanted to be free from rule of monarchs and create their own fate. We know what happened to… Read More

Inauguration Day is the time set to swear in and welcome the new president and vice president of the United States. It is the day a new president officially takes control of the White House. Although the presidential election takes… Read More

A lot of people don’t really understand the process of impeachment. It is a simple legal process including a formal accusation of wrongdoing, followed by a trial. Impeachment can be brought against many public officials, but the most high-profile cases… Read More

American presidents can issue pardons to anyone who has been convicted of a federal crime, even for treason or murder. Article II of the U.S. Constitution gives a president “power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United… Read More