River Bluff High We the People Champs

2025-2026 Bill 5032: River Bluff High We the People Champs - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5032
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House Resolution
Sponsors: Reps. Wooten, Alexander, Anderson, Atkinson, Bailey, Ballentine, Bamberg, Bannister, Bauer, Beach, Bernstein, Bowers, Bradley, Brewer, Brittain, Burns, Bustos, Calhoon, Caskey, Chapman, Chumley, Clyburn, Cobb-Hunter, Collins, Cox, Crawford, Cromer, Davis, Dillard, Duncan, Edgerton, Erickson, Ford, Forrest, Frank, Gagnon, Garvin, Gatch, Gibson, Gilliam, Gilliard, Gilreath, Govan, Grant, Guest, Guffey, Haddon, Hager, Hardee, Harris, Hart, Hartnett, Hartz, Hayes, Henderson-Myers, Herbkersman, Hewitt, Hiott, Hixon, Holman, Hosey, Howard, Huff, J.E. Johnson, J.L. Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Kilmartin, King, Kirby, Landing, Lastinger, Lawson, Ligon, Long, Lowe, Luck, Magnuson, Martin, McCabe, McCravy, McDaniel, McGinnis, C. Mitchell, D. Mitchell, Montgomery, J. Moore, T. Moore, Morgan, Moss, Neese, B. Newton, W. Newton, Oremus, Pace, Pedalino, Pope, Rankin, Reese, Rivers, Robbins, Rose, Rutherford, Sanders, Schuessler, Scott, Sessions, G.M. Smith, M.M. Smith, Spann-Wilder, Stavrinakis, Taylor, Teeple, Terribile, Vaughan, Waters, Weeks, Wetmore, White, Whitmire, Wickensimer, Williams, Willis and Yow
Document Path: LC-0263HA-GM26.docx
Introduced in the House on January 28, 2026
Adopted by the House on January 28, 2026
Summary: River Bluff High We the People Champs
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

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1/28/2026

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Introduced and adopted (
House Journal-page 391
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01/28/2026

A
house
RESOLUTION

TO RECOGNIZE AND
HONOR THE STUDENTS AND TEACHER COACHES FROM RIVER BLUFF HIGH SCHOOL WHO
PARTICIPATED IN THE WE THE PEOPLE COMPETITION AND TO CONGRATULATE THEM FOR
WINNING THE 2025 SOUTH CAROLINA WE THE PEOPLE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.

W
hereas, the South
Carolina House of Representatives is pleased to learn that the members of the
River Bluff High School We the People team swept their competitors at the state
competition held on Thursday, December 11, 2025; and

W
hereas, developed in
1976 to improve the ability of teachers to provide students with law-related
education, the We the People program is sponsored by the South Carolina Bar
Association's Law Related Education Division; and

W
hereas, the goal of
the competition is to increase education of the Constitution for students in
South Carolina and across the country. Students demonstrate their knowledge and
understanding of constitutional principles and have opportunities to evaluate,
take, and defend positions on relevant historical and contemporary issues.
Volunteer attorneys throughout the State help to judge the day-long, simulated
Congressional hearing in which students "testify" before a panel of judges; and

W
hereas, the thirty-two
students from River Bluff High School won the 2025 South Carolina We the People
competition. The competition challenges students to demonstrate knowledge of
United States history and American government, with a specific emphasis on the
United States Constitution; and

W
hereas, the students
received six units, each of which contained three questions and focused on
specific topics ranging from the philosophical foundations of the government to
contemporary applications of the Constitution. The questions were divided among
the team members, each of whom had an assigned unit for which to prepare
answers to the questions beforehand. At the competition, the team members sat
across from judges and gave their prepared answers and then answered questions
from the judges; and

W
hereas, the River
Bluff team won best unit in all six units of the competition, beating one other
team in the Palmetto State; and

W
hereas, teacher coach
Linsy Dooley and her two fellow teacher coaches, Meredith Mowles and Michael
Burgess, are to be commended for giving River Bluff students the opportunity to
learn the history of this great nation in the context of its most treasured
document, the Constitution, and in the process, to learn collaboration, time
management, personal responsibility, public speaking skills, and perhaps most
importantly, civil discourse. They learn how to support an argument with
evidence and how to disagree respectfully with others, two very important
skills in society today; and

W
hereas, the South
Carolina House of Representatives deeply appreciates the pride and recognition
that the students in the River Bluff We the People team have brought to their
school and to their community, and the members look forward to hearing of their
continued accomplishments in the days ahead. Now, therefore,

B
e it resolved by the
House of Representatives
:

T
hat the members of the
South Carolina
House of Representatives
,
by this resolution, recognize and honor the students and teacher coaches from
River Bluff High School who participated in the We the People competition and
congratulate them for winning the 2025 South Carolina We the People State
Championship.

B
e it further resolved
that a copy of this resolution be presented to teacher coaches Linsy Dooley,
Meredith Mowles, and Michael Burgess.

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