"If you don't have a healthy civil society, you can't very well have a functioning constitutional government."
That's Matthew Brogdon, senior director of the Center for Constitutional Studies at the University of Utah, telling a group of high school and middle school students in Utah last month as they presented their civic engagement projects as part of the Bill of Rights Institute's MyImpact Challenge.
As part of the challenge, students were tasked with connecting America's founding principlesliberty, equality, justice, and other inalienable rightsto at least one of the civic virtues outlined by the Bill of Rights Institute: courage, honor, humility, integrity, justice, moderation, prudence, respect, and responsibility.
Audrey Su, a junior at Skyline High School in Utah, focused on the principle of equality and founded Title I Strings to bring free string-instrument music education to Title I elementary schools, the Deseret News reports.
"To deny a child equal music education is to forgo them a valuable opportunity to find confidence, creativity, and passion in all walks of life," she says.
Elise Christenson, a student at Monticello High School in Utah, focused on protecting freedom of expression for Asian Americans and performing "sneaky service"
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