"Course no. 30210." Accompanying course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-260). Lecturer, Eric Berger.
Contents:
disc 4. The unresolved constitution. Failures of early America governments -- Dilemmas of the constitutional convention -- The ratification of the constitution-- The Bill of Rights as a concession -- The rise of federal power: Hamilton's bank -- disc 2. -- Constitutional issues of westward expansion -- The law of slavery under the constitution -- Constitutional roots of sectional tensions -- Lincoln, Civil War, and the constitution -- Emancipation and the thirteenth amendment -- The fourteenth amendment and freedom's meaning -- disc 3. Reconstruction politics and voting rights -- Reconstruction's broken legal promises -- Equal protection at the turn of the century -- The constitution in the progressive era -- World War I and the birth of free speech -- The New Deal: The constitution transformed -- disc 4. Challenging Jim Crow in the courts -- The backlash against Brown v. Board of Education -- The ERA and the battle over women's rights -- Conservatism, Christianity, and the court -- History in the constitutional interpretation -- The unresolved constitution.
Summary:
"In The US Constitution through History, Professor Eric Berger of the University of Nebraska takes you on a journey through America's constitutional history. In 24 riveting lectures, unpack the ideas of America's founding and trace the evolution of those ideas through the schisms of the 19th century, the transformations of the 20th century, and into our present era."-- Publisher's website.
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