LibertyClassroom.com is happy to share the first fifteen lectures in our course on U.S. Constitutional History, taught by Kevin Gutzman, author of James Madison and the Making of America and The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, and Brion McClanahan, author of The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution and The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers.
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And now for the lectures:
1. German and British Antecedents
2. Colonial Constitutionalism
3. The Imperial Crisis
4. The Declaration of Independence
5. Articles of Confederation and the Critical Period
6. To the Philadelphia Convention
7. The Philadelphia Convention
8. Ratification
9. The Federalist
10. State Constitutions
11. The First Congress
Cabinet Departments, Judiciary Act, Bill of Rights
12. At Swords’ Point
Jefferson v. Hamilton in the Cabinet (Assumption, Bank Bill, Neutrality Proclamation)
13. Federalists Off the Rails
Chisholm v. Georgia, Alien and Sedition Acts, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
14. Jeffersonians Take Command
15. The Marshall Court, Part I
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