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Lyle Denniston is the National Constitution Center's Adviser on Constitutional Literacy and writes often for Constitution Daily.

"I'm on Christine O'Donnell's side in terms of constitutional literacy," he said, wryly.

The McComb project, as it was called by civil rights workers in 1961, was one of the early battles in a long and bloody war for voting rights in the South, a crucible for future leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who drilled black residents to pass the constitutional literacy tests and in return for their civic engagement were shot at, jailed and beaten.

Lyle Denniston is the National Constitution Center's Adviser on Constitutional Literacy.

Eric developed his interests in public education and youth justice while in law school, where he served as a Fellow in the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project and taught constitutional literacy to high school students.

The president allegedly expressed extreme displeasure with members of his inner circle ― Steve Bannon "was disloyal (not to mention he always looks like shit)" ― curiosity about what a "golden shower" entails and a disinterest in constitutional literacy.

A federal civil rights lawsuit filed on Tuesday aims to challenge Hall's educational system by asserting a constitutional right to literacy, in what attorneys say is the first legal challenge of its kind in the US.

Just this year, the district has teetered on the edge of bankruptcy, prompting teachers facing potential payless work days to stage mass protests, and a federal lawsuit is now attempting to assert a constitutional right to literacy – an argument couched in the dismal performance scores of Detroit students.

Constitutional Commissions, 1987 Constitution.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 laid the groundwork, outlawing tactics used primarily in the South to block voting by African-Americans, including literacy tests and interpretations of constitutional writings.

After Congress created a nationwide ban on all literacy tests and similar devices in 1970 by enacting Section 201, the Court upheld the ban as constitutional in Oregon v. Mitchell (1970).