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What Liberty carries
In WRIT you are a Clerk of the Republic and Liberty the eagle is on your shoulder, and the game says what she is for: Liberty carries the record forward, so a 1761 argument about general warrants is exactly who you want in the room in 2014. This page is that, counted. These are the 55 records that more than one game in the arcade holds — 50 games are on the thread.
Nothing here was written. The thread is computed from the games themselves on every build. Add a game that cites the Constitution and it joins; delete one and it leaves. That is the only honest way to say something “ties the slate together” — the alternative is a hand-kept list of connections, and a hand-kept list is the thing that goes quietly wrong.
Liberty is not your Beacon. Your Beacon is the character you make on the bench at the arcade, on your device, with no account — and the rule is that everybody makes their own. Liberty is not that and never will be. She belongs to nobody here, she is not stored against you, and there is nothing on this page to customise. A companion you inherit is not an avatar you are assigned, and the thing that is common has to stay common.
The records, by how many games hold them
- 10 gamesU.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/
Held by Balance of Powers · Bill Path · Branch Check · Fact or Claim · Helper Match · Power Pairs · Steady the Scale · Which Document Says That? · Who Does That Job? · Who Fixes It?
- 7 gamesU.S. Census Bureau — Census of Governments (school district governments)https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cog.html
Held by Helper Match · How a Rule Gets Made · Power Pairs · Steady the Scale · Who Do I Call? · Who Fixes It? · Your Address Has a Record
- 6 gamesNational Council of Teachers of Mathematics — principleshttps://www.nctm.org/standards/
Held by Change One Thing · How Many Is That? · Proof or Picture? · Questions That Do Not Wear Out · What Is the Machine Doing? · What the Equals Sign Actually Says
- 5 gamesNational Association for Media Literacy Education — key questionshttps://namle.org/resources/core-principles/
Held by Friendship Is a Set of Moves · More Than One Way to Be Fair · Say It Back · Who Made This? · Who Says So?
- 5 gamesNational Archives — Constitution transcripthttps://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
Held by Convention Party · Map the Nation · WRIT · Which Document Says That? · Whose Words?
- 5 gamesU.S. Election Assistance Commissionhttps://www.eac.gov/
Held by Convention Party · Helper Match · Map the Nation · Power Pairs · The Long Haul
- 5 gamesLibrary of Congress — Getting started with primary sourceshttps://www.loc.gov/programs/teachers/getting-started-with-primary-sources/
Held by Questions That Do Not Wear Out · Say It Back · Source Check · What a Story Is Doing to You · Who Says So?
- 4 gamesU.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 2https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/
Held by Balance of Powers · Branch Check · Power Pairs · Steady the Scale
- 4 gamesUSA.gov — State, local, and tribal governmentshttps://www.usa.gov/state-local-governments
Held by Helper Match · Power Pairs · Who Do I Call? · Who Fixes It?
- 3 gamesBen's Guide — How Laws Are Madehttps://bensguide.gpo.gov/a-how-made
Held by How a Rule Gets Made · Steady the Scale · Who Does That Job?
- 3 gamesBen's Guide — Judicial Branchhttps://bensguide.gpo.gov/a-judicial
Held by Helper Match · Steady the Scale · Who Does That Job?
- 3 gamesU.S. Constitution, First Amendmenthttps://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/
Held by Fact or Claim · Rights Check · Which Document Says That?
- 3 gamesU.S. Constitution, Article III, Section 2https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-3/
Held by Balance of Powers · Branch Check · Steady the Scale
- 3 gamesNASA Science — seasons and Earth's tilthttps://science.nasa.gov/
Held by Questions That Do Not Wear Out · Who Made This? · Why Winter Is Cold
- 3 gamesU.S. Department of State — Passportshttps://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports.html
Held by Map the Nation · Who Do I Call? · Who Fixes It?
- 3 gamesNational Human Genome Research Institute — DNA basicshttps://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary
Held by Alive, Once Alive, or Never · Change One Thing · Questions That Do Not Wear Out
- 3 gamesMyMoney.govhttps://www.mymoney.gov/
Held by Asset or Liability? · Money In, Money Out · The Stand
- 3 gamesNational Reading Panel — teaching children to readhttps://www.nichd.nih.gov/research/supported/nrp
Held by Sounds First · Taught, Not Assigned · Where the Words Come From
- 3 gamesNIST — AI Risk Management Frameworkhttps://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework
Held by It's All Numbers Under an Agreement · What Broke, and Who Said So · What Is the Machine Doing?
- 3 gamesNOAA — climate and observing systemshttps://www.noaa.gov/education
Held by Alive, Once Alive, or Never · Who Says So? · Why Winter Is Cold
- 3 gamesUSA.gov — Driver's licenses and ID cardshttps://www.usa.gov/motor-vehicle-services
Held by Map the Nation · Who Do I Call? · Who Fixes It?
- 3 gamesUSA.gov — State governmentshttps://www.usa.gov/state-governments
Held by Helper Match · Power Pairs · True, or Just Feels True?
- 2 gamesBen's Guide — Executive Branchhttps://bensguide.gpo.gov/a-executive
Held by Helper Match · Who Does That Job?
- 2 gamesBen's Guide (U.S. Government Publishing Office) — Legislative Branchhttps://bensguide.gpo.gov/a-legislative
Held by Helper Match · Who Does That Job?
- 2 gamesBen's Guide (GPO) — The Bill of Rightshttps://bensguide.gpo.gov/bill-of-rights-1789-91
Held by Fair Rules · Whose Words?
- 2 gamesUS Bureau of Justice Statistics — National Crime Victimization Surveyhttps://bjs.ojp.gov/
Held by Before Anything Physical · The Ledger
- 2 gamesCox v. New Hampshire (1941)https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/312/569/
Held by Rights Arena · The Long Haul
- 2 gamesWest Virginia v. Barnette (1943)https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/319/624/
Held by Rights Arena · WRIT
- 2 gamesReynolds v. Sims (1964) — one person, one votehttps://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/377/533/
Held by Convention Party · Draw the Districts
- 2 gamesNew York Times Co. v. United States (1971)https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/403/713/
Held by Rights Arena · WRIT
- 2 gamesPolice Dept. of Chicago v. Mosley (1972)https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/408/92/
Held by Rights Arena · WRIT
- 2 gamesPayton v. New York (1980)https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/445/573/
Held by Rights Arena · WRIT
- 2 gamesUnited States v. Jones (2012)https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/565/400/
Held by Rights Arena · WRIT
- 2 gamesRiley v. California (2014)https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/573/373/
Held by Rights Arena · WRIT
- 2 games911.gov (National 911 Program) — When to call 911https://www.911.gov/calling-911/frequently-asked-questions/
Held by Who Do I Call? · Who Fixes It?
- 2 gamesU.S. Constitution, Amendment IV — National Archiveshttps://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript
Held by Rights Arena · WRIT
- 2 gamesNational Archives — Declaration transcripthttps://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Held by Which Document Says That? · Whose Words?
- 2 gamesUS National Archives — research and recordkeepinghttps://www.archives.gov/research
Held by It's All Numbers Under an Agreement · Your Address Has a Record
- 2 gamesBFI — film education: reading a filmhttps://www.bfi.org.uk/education-research
Held by The Cut You Did Not See · Who Made This?
- 2 gamesU.S. Census Bureau — Annual Survey of State and Local Government Financeshttps://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/gov-finances.html
Held by Map the Nation · The Budget Table
- 2 gamesCongress.gov — roll call votes and member recordshttps://www.congress.gov/roll-call-votes
Held by Fact or Claim · Source Check
- 2 gamesCFPB — Money as You Growhttps://www.consumerfinance.gov/consumer-tools/money-as-you-grow/
Held by Money In, Money Out · The Stand
- 2 gamesEPA — Safe Drinking Water Act and primacyhttps://www.epa.gov/sdwa
Held by Map the Nation · The Long Haul
- 2 gamesGovernment Finance Officers Association — Best practices in budgetinghttps://www.gfoa.org/best-practices
Held by The Budget Table · The Ledger
- 2 gamesInstitute of Museum and Library Services — Public librarieshttps://www.imls.gov/research-evaluation/data-collection/public-libraries-survey
Held by Helper Match · Map the Nation
- 2 games28 U.S.C. §1 — Number of justiceshttps://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1
Held by Branch Check · Fact or Claim
- 2 gamesLibrary of Congress — Gettysburg Address exhibitionhttps://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gettysburg-address/
Held by Which Document Says That? · Whose Words?
- 2 gamesMarbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)https://www.loc.gov/item/usrep005137/
Held by Balance of Powers · Branch Check
- 2 gamesNational Park Servicehttps://www.nps.gov/
Held by Helper Match · Who Fixes It?
- 2 gamesNational Park Service — Lincoln's Second Inauguralhttps://www.nps.gov/linc/learn/historyculture/lincoln-second-inaugural.htm
Held by Which Document Says That? · Whose Words?
- 2 gamesNational Park Service — The New Colossushttps://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/colossus.htm
Held by Which Document Says That? · Whose Words?
- 2 gamesNational Park Service — Declaration of Sentimentshttps://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/declaration-of-sentiments.htm
Held by Which Document Says That? · Whose Words?
- 2 gamesReporters Committee — Open Government Guide, state by statehttps://www.rcfp.org/open-government-guide/
Held by Convention Party · The Long Haul
- 2 gamesU.S. DOT — State departments of transportationhttps://www.transportation.gov/state-dot-websites
Held by Who Do I Call? · Who Fixes It?
- 2 gamesU.S. Fire Administration (FEMA)https://www.usfa.fema.gov/
Held by Helper Match · Who Do I Call?
A record counts as carried when more than one game cites the same address and names it. Games that cite something nothing else cites are not on the thread, which is not a criticism of them — most of the arcade is off it, and a game teaching one thing well has no reason to share a source with another. Nothing on this page is scored, saved or sent anywhere. The games themselves are at the arcade.