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Show H STUDY OF CONSTITUTION H IS ;S0UG1IT BY LEAGUE! H Washington, Mar. 2 (Capital News H Service) Government officials arc m much interested in tho campaign H started by the National Security H League of New York looking to tho H paBsago Of laws by 44 states requir- H ing that a study of the Constitution H of the United States be required of M students in all schools. m Four states Illinois, Iowa, Michi- fl gan and Vermont jnow have such a M law. Two hundred of tho country's B leading educators, it is said, Jarc M back of the movement, which it is H expected will require several ycars B to push to conclusion. H Officials of the Bureau of Educa- 1 tion express tho hope that such stato H laws, when passed, will not require M any special form of study of the M Constitution, and point out that tho H practice of some schools which now 1 teach iti. of requiring Bcholbra to M learn it by heart, is apt to do more H harm than good. They say that it is m the meaning, not the wording, which H 1s important, and that it is tho duty H of the Supremo Court, not the indi- H vidaul, to interpret the phraseology. B If the average student is required H to study it from tho standpoint of H understanding its principles he will, M they point out, bo much more likely H to uso his knowledge than if required H merely to learn it word for word. |