Roots of American Constitutionalism

Catalog description

The Roots of American Constitutionalism course is designed to increase students’ understanding of the key philosophical issues and historical debates that gave rise to the United States of America. The goals of the course are: to improve students’ ability to identify the fundamental ideas, institutions, and traditions on which the American constitutional system is based; to recognize what makes a constitution “work” for a given people; and to show what makes up our “unwritten Constitution” as a nation and people. Offered summer of odd years.