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<p>Explore the history of the US Constitution from its conception through 230 years of discussions and debates.</p>

Syllabus

  • 01: America’s Founding Ideas
  • 02: Failures of Early American Governments
  • 03: Dilemmas of the Constitutional Convention
  • 04: The Ratification of the Constitution
  • 05: The Bill of Rights as a Concession
  • 06: The Rise of Federal Power: Hamilton’s Bank
  • 07: Constitutional Issues of Westward Expansion
  • 08: The Law of Slavery under the Constitution
  • 09: Constitutional Roots of Sectional Tensions
  • 10: Lincoln, Civil War, and the Constitution
  • 11: Emancipation and the Thirteenth Amendment
  • 12: The Fourteenth Amendment and Freedom’s Meaning
  • 13: Reconstruction Politics and Voting Rights
  • 14: Reconstruction’s Broken Legal Promises
  • 15: Equal Protection at the Turn of the Century
  • 16: The Constitution in the Progressive Era
  • 17: World War I and the Birth of Free Speech
  • 18: The New Deal: The Constitution Transformed
  • 19: Challenging Jim Crow in the Courts
  • 20: The Backlash against Brown v. Board of Education
  • 21: The ERA and the Battle over Women’s Rights
  • 22: Conservatism, Christianity, and the Court
  • 23: History in Constitutional Interpretation
  • 24: The Unresolved Constitution
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Taught by

Eric Berger

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