“Democracy must be learned by each generation,” now more than ever this statement rings true. Civics is a single semester course to accomplish the task of equipping students with a clear working knowledge of our United States Government system, in order to become the active and informed citizens a well-functioning democracy requires. The course employs an interdisciplinary approach synthesizing history and political science to understand the historical origins of our system, the precedent setting Supreme Court cases, as well as the Enlightenment thinkers and how their influence has played a key role in the construction of our governing document the Constitution.