Tag Archives: U.S. Constitution
Ratifying the Constitution
Michael Gillespie and Michael Lienesch are coeditors of Ratifying the Constitution: Ideas and Interests in the Several American States, which contains the papers presented at a conference of the same name held in May 1987 at the National Humanities Center and was cosponsored … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Gillespie, Michael A., Lienesch, Michael
Tagged Constitution, Constitutional history, Humanities, U.S. Constitution
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Creating the Constitution
Is the Constitution of the United States an ideal blueprint for politics in the late twentieth century? Or should we, in the words of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, resist a “complacent belief” in the wisdom of the framers of … Continue reading
Posted in Conrad, Stephen A., Curtis, Michael Kent, Episodes, Wilson, John F.
Tagged Constitution, Law, Politics, Religion, U.S. Constitution
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Knowing the Constitution
September 17, 1987, was the bicentennial anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. Near that anniversary, how well do Americans know their principal governing document? This edition of Soundings presents replies to that question by scholars Michael … Continue reading
Posted in Appleby, Joyce O., Episodes, Kammen, Michael G.
Tagged History, U.S. Constitution
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American Federalism
In 1787 in Philadelphia, 55 delegates debated the features of the proposed constitution of the United States. Those in favor were federalists, those against were antifederalists. The federalists prevailed. Yet, according to William Allen, it is inaccurate to overlook the contribution … Continue reading
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Religion and Government in America
The protection of religious freedom was a central concern of the framers of the Constitution of the United States and remains a central concern in American culture in the 1980s. John Semonche looks at the dichotomies that existed between the original … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Semonche, John E.
Tagged Constitution, Freedom of Religion, Religion, U.S. Constitution
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Interpreting the Constitution
William Leuchtenburg and Edwin Yoder discuss issues concerning how the Supreme Court and American Jurisprudence should best interpret the Constitution of the United State. Is it a living document responsive to contemporary social issues, or is it a changeless cultural touchstone … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Leuchtenburg, William E., Yoder, Edwin M.
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American Origins: Variety and Purpose
In 1787 America found itself on the eve of its constitutional convention, the process by which the aims and ideals of the American Revolution became politically explicit. Gary Nash and Thomas Slaughter discuss questions such as these: What were the circumstances of life in … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Nash, Gary B., Slaughter, Thomas P.
Tagged U.S. Constitution, United States -- History -- Revolution
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Republics, Ancient and Modern, Part 2 of 2
George Kennedy, Marc Plattner, and Paul Rahe discuss the importance to both popular and academic audiences of republican forms of government, from antiquity to contemporary deliberations about concepts and practice. In response to a question about what kind of government had … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Kennedy, George A., Plattner, Marc F., Rahe, Paul Anthony
Tagged Ancient Greece -- Politics, Constitution, Government -- Republics, Politics -- U.S., U.S. Constitution
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(1) Republics, Ancient and Modern, Part 1 of 2; (2) Review of Tuchman’s “March of Folly”
Paul Rahe, George Kennedy, and Marc Plattner discuss republican forms of government from their roots in the city-states of ancient Greece to their modern versions. Along the way they investigate the connections between human nature and forms of government peculiar to … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Gingher, Robert, Kennedy, George A., Plattner, Marc F., Rahe, Paul Anthony
Tagged Ancient Greece -- Politics, Politics, U.S. Constitution
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Citizenship, Politics, and the American Character, Part 1 of 5
A five-part series combines a discussion of ethics, American history, ancient history and classics, and political science and features scholars John Agresto, Alvin Bernstein, Edward Erler, Marvin Meyers, and Jean Yarbrough. Here, they discuss the connection between politics and character, … Continue reading
Posted in Agresto, John, Bernstein, Alvin, Episodes, Erler, Edward, Meyers, Marvin, Yarbrough, Jean
Tagged Ethics, History - Rome, History -- U.S., Politics, U.S. Constitution
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