HNRS-260PS | What is a Constitution

Full Title: What is a Constitution?

Topic Description:

What is American constitutionalism? How can theoretical accounts of concepts such as human nature, liberty, equality, leadership, tyranny, and the rule of law contribute to our abilities to analyze American constitutionalism? These questions will be considered with guidance from representative Western and American political thinkers. Students will apply their growing philosophical frameworks for interpreting American constitutionalism to contemporary constitutional and political issues.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: April 2017