Where is the Best Summary of Violations of the Constitution?

is the Constitution itself, written in plain language. Read Article I Section 8, then the 10th Amendment. After that, consider some of the things the Federal Government does today, such as it's involvement in education. It is very easy to make a list of violations from that source alone, which will also help develop critical thinking on the part of all involved.

Who Killed The Constitution

Without a doubt for the best, most-easily-understood review/synopsis of Constitutional violations...plus the petitions for redress submitted by We the People.

www.wethepeoplefoundation.org

Those last few words of the First Amendment have all but been forgotten, but they're crucial to representative constitutional government.

Suggestion re "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" is good, but would likely be well over the head of a 7th grader--even an extremely bright 7th grader.

http://thomas.loc.gov/

also,

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing_room/executive_orders/

Those list many of them. :-P

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"...a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." -John F. Kennedy

For the most large scale and blatant violation of the Constitution of the United States of America, you should read the piece entered into the Congressional Record on June 13, 1967 entitled "The 14th Amendment - Equal Protection Law or Tool of Usurpation."

Read it here: http://www.14th-amendment.com/Historical_Documents/Congressi...

This outlines how the radical Republicans of the north hijacked Congress and instituted a de facto government which violated the rule of law at every turn, by side-stepping vetos to installing rump/puppet legislatures in the southern States to pass the Amendment.

pretty good contemporary references. The first is:

Constitutional Chaos by Andrew Napolitano

and

Men In Black - How The Supreme Court Is Destroying America, by Mark Levin

Both are crowded with various violations of the U.S. Constitution by people from different branches of the federal (and state) governments. Regarding any such presentation to her teacher, or to essentially anyone else in the body politic today, most will dismiss claims of constitutional mischief when and where it can be shown that all three branches of the U.S. Thuggery are in agreement as to what should be allowed to pass as constitutionally acceptable, without regard to documented original intent.

You also might want to consider Harry Atwood's "The Constitution Explained". Although it was written during an earlier period of the 20th century, it's still an interesting analysis of how the Constitution would read if the amendments where inserted as part of the main body of the document.

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"An economy built on fiat money is a society on its way to ashes."

Buy her a copy of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal to read.
If you dare let her read The Fountainhead and We The Living.

In a couple of years Atlas Shrugged should be about right.

For The New Intellectual and Anthem come to mind.

In Atlas a philosopher writes an Amendment to the Constitution stating that Congress shall pass no law abrogating the separation of the State and the Economy, or words to that effect.

www.GiveMeLiberty.org is where you will find the seven petitions of the We The People Foundation which are worth reading including the govt's response and Schultz' courageous reply to that.

Wm

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine" Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged p731

www.wethepeoplefoundation.com. There you will find one of the most detailed list of the recent usurpation of our constitution and the responding case law to support it. It is absolutely wonderful and a great testament to how our government is completely igoring the charter of the Republic.

When our Forefathers drafted the Declaration of Independence, they reserved for us the right and duty to abolish any form of government that becomes destructive of our life and liberty. The current United States federal government has since far surpassed the level of tyranny and despotism of the British government that caused the first American Revolutionaries to dissolve the political bonds that connected them with the Crown.

The current United States federal government has:

Unconstitutionally invaded sovereign nations, and begun wars of aggression that have killed, maimed, and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

Unconstitutionally imposed a system of warrantless surveillance over the American People, infringing our right to privacy.

Unconstitutionally suspended the right of habeas corpus, assuming unto itself the power to hold prisoners indefinitely without trial.

Unconstitutionally suspended the right to bear arms, confiscating the firearms and instruments of self defense of good citizens in diverse cases, including during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Unconstitutionally usurped control over the economic actions of the American People, placing unnecessary burdens on entrepreneurs who wish to pursue happiness; forcing prices of some goods to remain artificially high, to the detriment of American consumers; forcing prices of some goods to remain artificially low, to the detriment of American sellers; and imposing controls on wages, resulting in unemployment of American workers.

Unconstitutionally cut off our trade with many parts of the world.

Unconstitutionally usurped control over the money supply of the American People, forcing credit expansions and contractions that result in the dangerous Boom-Bust Cycle.

Unconstitutionally imposed detrimental taxes on the American People, most grievously, the personal income tax, and the tax of inflation brought about by the unconstitutionally chartered Federal Reserve central bank.

Unconstitutionally erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

Unconstitutionally decided to deploy, in times of peace, standing armies among us, under what is now called the U.S. Northern Command.

Unconstitutionally combined with other, unelected, international governing bodies (such as the United Nations, NATO, NAFTA, the IMF, the World Bank, etc.) to subject us to jurisdictions foreign to our Constitution; corroding our national sovereignty; and giving its assent to their acts of pretended legislation.

Among many other offenses, too numerous to list.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A president, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

We believe that each Person owns his or her self, and that no one has a higher claim to a Person's life, liberties, and property than that Person does. Thus, we believe that no Person has a positive right to initiate aggression by force or fraud against another Person. Our stance is that involuntary government, especially of the intolerable sort conducted by the United States federal government, directly violates this principle.

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in a Spirit of Liberty and Responsibility, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Moral Standard of nature and/or the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of this land, solemnly publish and declare, that these People are, and of right ought to be free and independent People; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the United States federal government, and that all political connection between them and the United States federal government, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent People, guaranteed by our Forefathers the right to abolish any form of government that is destructive of their liberties, they have full power to defend their person, their family, and their property, to live at peace with one another, to contract with voluntary firms for their defense, legal recourse, and other services necessary to the protection of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent and free People may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor once again.

This Statement of Intention to Abolish the United States federal government, to be officially delivered on the Fifth of November in the Year 2008, We the People intend to effect on the Fifth of November in the Year 2009.

Seems the site is gone though, I got this from ronpaulforums

Print out a mock copy of the constitution on a parchment colored paper. Try to make it look somewhat aged and authentic.

Give her a book of matches, a bottle of water and the mock constitution to take to class.

When she makes her presentation, tell her to hold up the papers and tell the class "This is the foundation of the country."

Next, have her hold up the book of matches and tell the class,
"This is politicians, interventionist policy, and our new president."

Third, hold up the bottle of water and tell the class "This represents liberty."

For the big finale, have her set the papers on fire and watch them burn while she drinks the water. Let them burn to ashes.

At the end, tell the class that the water could have put the fire out and saved the constitution, but instead the people ignored it and choked down a false sense of freedom.

Congress authorizing the Pres to use military force vs. asking Congress to declare war. There are several instances of that happening since WWII.

...almost every law proposed and passed in the previous 100 years or so, has been a violation of the Constitution (except for Ron Paul's, of course).

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/liberty_outlook/