LNGenZ News for Kids: Civics

Debate History Today, we see presidential debates as a big part of the election process. However, the debates are really an informal thing that weren’t always a part of running for president. The first major debate between political candidates was… Read More

Our federal government consists of three branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial. They are all described in the United States Constitution. The three branches of government are all equal — they each play a unique role in lawmaking. Each branch holds… Read More

The 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution might seem like no big deal, as it just changes the date that the new president and Congress take office. But if the dates had always been as they are now, American history… Read More

For a long time, people have believed that the major polls indicated who was going to win in an election. That’s starting to change, though, as people are doubting polls because of their unreliability, bias, and inability to predict political… Read More

The country has been trying to figure out how to hold the 2020 election in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. Ideas like universal mail-in voting has been suggested by many and has received a lot of attention in the… Read More

Everyone knew it would end up this way, but now it’s official. Donald Trump is the Republican candidate for president and Joe Biden is the Democrat candidate. As each candidate gave his acceptance speech, we heard two very different visions… Read More

Hillary Clinton told Joe Biden, the Democrat candidate for president, that he “should not concede under any circumstances.” So even if Donald Trump seems to have won after election day, she wants Biden to keep up the fight and not… Read More

“I am Vice President. In this I am nothing, but I may be everything” – John Adams The role of the vice president is the second-highest position of the executive branch and the first in the presidential line of succession…. Read More

Every four years, the major political parties in the United States – the Republicans and the Democrats – hold national conventions. These happen every time a presidential election is coming up. The parties use these meetings to decide on party policy,… Read More

Like most things in this Coronavirus pandemic, school closures have become a political topic of debate. At the same time, schoolchildren have been suffering, growing older and falling further behind in their education. The Start of the Debate Preventing the… Read More

In the United States, the right to vote is shared by men and women – but that wasn’t always the case! The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women suffrage, or the right to vote, in 1920. The fight… Read More

“Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchaseable voice in government.” … Read More