Welcome to the Fifth Annual Bucks County High School

Civics Scholarship Essay Contest

Open to all Bucks County High School Seniors

(whether attending a Public, Charter, Private, Technical, Religious, Home or Other High School)

The winner will receive a $2,500.00 scholarship and Runner-up a $1,000 scholarship; and both will receive a one-day passes to the National Constitution Center (courtesy of the Center).

Americans are divided as to whether the current Administration is on the right path toward Making America Great Again or whether its actions represent a constitutional crisis threatening the fabric of our representative democracy. The Constitution provides three (Legislative, Executive and Judicial) separate and co-equal branches of the Federal government, each with certain enumerated powers and responsibilities with each having the ability to provide checks and balances on the action of the other branches.

“If the Executive branch is exceeding its constitutional powers, as some argue, and the current Congress and the Supreme Court are failing to impose limits on the Executive, as some also argue, how can or should the president be constrained?”

Submissions should be uploaded via our web form…

All essay entries must be uploaded on or before Midnight, December 31, 2025.  

The Winner and Runner-up will be announced in the spring of 2026.

PLEASE VISIT OUR PAST WINNERS PAGE FOR DETAILS ON BOTH OUR OUTSTANDING

2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

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