Representative Democracy in America: Voices of the People

About Representative Democracy in America

Representative Democracy in America: Voices of the People is a seven-part video series on DVD designed to help high school students understand our system of representative democracy. The seven programs, each approximately 15 minutes in length, address the following topics:

• The roots of representative democracy
• Federalism and the separation of powers
• The roles of representatives, executives, and justices in our democracy
• Our representatives and how they are chosen
• The role of the citizen in a representative democracy

A digital version of the accompanying instructional guide, which features 12 lesson plans, a synopsis, a bibliography, and correlations to We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution (Level 3) is on the DVD.