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Street Smarts: Lawmaking in the U.S.

Political Science · Civics · America · Captions

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America’s Founders created a lawmaking process to protect liberty and maintain order that still affects every American today. Your tweens and teens will learn how laws are created—from proposing legislation to voting on bills, to overriding a veto, and more—in this episode of Street Smarts.

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