(WIB) – On Constitution Day, I won’t just hand out pocket Constitutions. I’ll be in the Dunbar High cafeteria behind a voter registration table with the League of Women Voters. A few steps away, we’ll run a Know Your Rights station. Clipboards, wallet cards, questions. We’ll celebrate a document worth learning — and tell the truth about who it excluded and how we keep widening the “we.”

I teach constitutional law in Washington, D.C., a city that embodies the Constitution’s contradictions. My students can recite the preamble by heart and still ask a question no textbook fully answers: How can Congress overrule our local laws when D.C. has no voting members in Congress? That’s not a hypothetical. It’s their bus route, their block, their family. When the federal government takes over D.C. de

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