Principles of Democracy Posters

Grade
6-9
9-12
Lesson Duration

By Deliberating in a Democracy in the Americas

Print out small posters of each of the 14 principles of democracy for educational use as well as classroom decoration.
(Accepting the Results of Elections, Accountability, Bill of Rights, Citizen Participation, Control of the Abuse of Power, Economic Freedom, Regular Free and Fair Elections, Equality, Human Rights, Independent Judiciary, Multi-Party Systems, Political Tolerance, The Rule of Law, Transparency)

Posters: http://dda.deliberating.org/images/pdf/principlesofdemocracyposters.pdf

Click on: http://dda.deliberating.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91&Itemid=2&lang=en for a list of suggested activities to use with the posters.

Source

The initiative is conducted by the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago (CRFC), the Constitutional Rights Foundation in Los Angeles (CRF) and Street Law, Inc. with a grant from the U.S. Department of Education.