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title: O.C.G.A. § 20-3-68. Instruction in history and constitutions of the State of Georgia and the United States.
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# O.C.G.A. § 20-3-68. Instruction in history and constitutions of the State of Georgia and the United States.

All colleges and universities sustained or in any manner supported by public funds shall give instruction in the history of the United States and the history of Georgia and in the essentials of the United States Constitution and the Constitution of Georgia; and no undergraduate student in any college or university shall receive a certificate of graduation or a degree without successfully completing course work or previously passing a satisfactory examination on the same.

## History

Code 1933, § 32-171, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 1140, § 1.

## Law Reviews

For article, “The Enduring Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law,” see 74 Emory L. Rev. 48 (2025).