[The preface to American Constitution Made Easy, by Reva Wadsworth, published in 1990 and utilized in American Constitution Stars since that time by Reva Wadsworth ACS Bowls ]

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PREFACE

A Note to Teachers

AMERICAN CONSTITUTION MADE EASY is a handbook for the student in his study of the Constitution. This handbook contains over 480 tossup and bonus questions developed expressly for use in American Constitution Bowls. The questions cover every aspect of the Constitution. The student has hands-on information and experience to prepare his/her participation in the Constitution Bowls. Any teacher's agenda will be greatly enhanced with the use of this book which clarifies the Constitution in easy A-B-C learning blocks.

The AMERICAN CONSTITUTION STARS Club is an exciting new innovation to generate interest and study with the basic principles of the Constitution of the United States of America. The STARS facilitates American Constitution Quiz Bowl games, a fun and easy way to learn the Constitution.

The AMERICAN CONSTITUTION STARS Club will be an asset in your school, as the STARS excel in leadership, speech, and debate. The STARS Club is designed to enable the student in learning, clarifying, and verbalizing the Constitution. STARS Club members in your school can set up their own learning blocks, taking a section at a time, as few as five or ten question sets at a time. This can be in-class participation or extra-curricular as the teacher or club members choose. The By-laws of the AMERICAN CONSTITUTION STARS Club. (see p. 138) give students basic direction to start, maintain the club, and seat up teams for the bowls and competitions.

STARS may participate in the annual State American Constitution Quiz Bowl Tournament. Questions and answers from American Constitution Made Easy will be used in the State competition. Any interested student of the school may join . . . . p. viii American Constitution Made Easy - A Constitution Quiz Bowl Game. Copyright by Reva Wadsworth 1990. Reaffirmed 2003, the only copyrighted owner, never relinquished.

Black’s Law on copyright;

BLACK’S LAW BOOK

p. 813.

p. Intellectual property. 1. A category of intangible rights protecting commercially valuable products of the human intellect.

q. The category comprises primarily trademart, copyright, and patent rights, but also includes trade-secret rights, publicity rights, moral rights, and rights against unfair competition.

4. 2. A commercially valuable product of the human intellect, in a concrete or abstractg form, such as a copyrightable work, a protectable trademark, a patentable invention, or a trade secret -- Abbr. 1P.

p. 301. Duration of copyright: Works created on or after January 1, 1978.

(a) In General. -- Copyright in a work created on or after January 1, 1978, subsists from its creation and, except as provided by the following subsections, endures for a term consisting of the life of the author and 70 years after the author’s death.

(b) Joint Works. -- In the case of a joint work prepared by two or more authors who did not work for hire, the copyright endures for a term consisting of the life of the last surviving author and 70 years after such last surviving author’s death.

p. 202. Duration of copyright: Works created by not published or copyrighted before January 1, 1978.

(a) Copyright in a work created before January 1, 1978, but not theretofore in the public domain or copyrighted, subsists from January 1, 1978, and endures for the term provided by section 302. In no case, however, shall the term of the copyright in such a work expire before December 31, 2002, the term of copyright shall not expire before December 31, 2047.

(b) The distribution before January 1, 1978, of a phonorecord shall not for any purpose constitute a publication of the musical work embodied therein.