Total run time:
3h 30m
In order to understand the founding documents of the United States, you need to know something about the men who wrote them. What books or thinkers influenced the Founders? Why were there disagreements at the Constitutional Convention? How did people who talked about freedom allow slavery to continue? What is the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?
Leading scholars discuss the most difficult question about the Constitution - how can the Founders have believed in true freedom when they designed a document that acknowledges slavery?
Although the Founders were deeply divided on the issue of slave
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Leading scholars discuss the most difficult question about the Constitution - how can the Founders have believed in true freedom when they designed a document that acknowledges slavery?
Although the Founders were deeply divided on the issue of slavery, both sides made compromises to achieve the ultimate goal of a united nation. The document they produced, the Constitution, reflects these difficulties and compromises but sets the framework for the new United States to eventually achieve the promise of liberty for all.
Professor Randy Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts, and is Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.
Professor Steven Calabresi is the Clayton J. & Henry R. Barber Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. He is Chairman of the Federalist Society's Board of Directors.
Professor John Harrison is the James Madison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. His teaching subjects include constitutional history, federal courts, remedies, corporations, civil procedure, legislation, and property.
Professor Lucas Morel is the Head of the Politics Department at Washington and Lee University. His latest book, Lincoln and the American Founding, will be released in July 2020.
Lynn Uzzell is a Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. She is currently teaching a course on the American Political Tradition, and working on an academic study of James Madison’s notes from the Constitutional Convention.
Professor Gordon Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. He is the author of several books about the American Founding and the recipient of numerous awards for his work.
As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.
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Total run time:
3h 30m
Course:
Constitutional Law
Total videos:
15
Difficulty:
Elective
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