Education for Sovereign People
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In chapter 6, Peggy Cooper Davis notes that in a democratic republic, the people are sovereign and must be free and educated to exercise that sovereignty. She contends that the history of chattel slavery’s denial of human sovereignty in the United States, slavery’s overthrow in the Civil War, and the Constitution’s reconstruction to restore human sovereignty provide a basis for recognizing that the personal rights protected by the United States Constitution, as amended on the demise of slavery, include a fundamental right to education that is adequate to enable every person to participate meaningfully as one among equal and sovereign people.
Source Publication
A Federal Right to Education: Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy
Source Editors/Authors
Kimberly Jenkins Robinson
Publication Date
2019
Recommended Citation
Davis, Peggy C., "Education for Sovereign People" (2019). Faculty Chapters. 296.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/296
