Contrary to what civics textbooks might suggest, passing legislation today is just the very first step.

(Step 2 of how a bill becomes law in the civics textbooks, just after the bill's introduction.)

If only the series did not sound, so often, like an eighth-grade civics textbook.

The struggle over the budget dramatizes the difference between real life and civics textbooks.

In the sixth-grade civics textbook published by the Palestinian Authority, there is a blank rectangle where a map should be.

"The Daily Show" offers a parody of a civics textbook.

The United States, every civics textbook says, is a nation of immigrants, a refuge to the tired, the poor and the tempest-tossed.

One is the "civics textbook" approach, in which government makes open and formally stated choices.

Virtually every major textbook publisher puts out at least one civics textbook, usually aimed at the junior high level.

But the appropriations process generally followed the civics textbooks.