Constitutional Law: Structure

Do you think you should know more about the Constitution than you do?  Do you understand key debates in Constitutional Law...debates over the unitary executive, whether the state or the federal government gets to decide, what is and is not permitted under the Commerce Clause, separation of powers, judicial review...and others?  What relationship does the Structural Constitution have, if any, to our rights guarantees? Why does the structural Constitutional matter? 

If you want to learn more, you’re in the right place.

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary … In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” 

-Federalist No. 51

This course the No. 86 video project focuses on the formation and core tenets of the Structural Constitution.

Modules in the course include:

• The Structure of the Constitution

• Article I: Congress (forthcoming)

• Article II: Executive Power

• Article III: the Courts and Judicial Review (forthcoming)

• Federalism

• History of the Constitution and the Founding Fathers (forthcoming)

Philadelphia in 1787, when and where our Constitution was drafted, serves as the inspiration for the animated world in these videos. We add a modern twist, though, "bringing the old into the new.” Our aesthetic approach is analogous to the restoration of a historic home, where outdated decorations make way for something that is clean and appealing to the modern aesthetic, but that preserves the beauty of the historic details.