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The US Constitution through History

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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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Eric Berger

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