Law · Boston College
This seminar will focus on the framing period of the U.S. Constitution as a political, legal, historical, cultural, intellectual, and literary process. We will consider a range of topics using primary and secondary sources, including, e.g., the idea of a constitution; the narrative of the Convention; the reliability of the sources; the various initial plans and strategies; issues of representation and slavery; the conception of the executive and judiciary; the role of committees and drafts; ratification; the process of amendment; American constitutional culture. As a 3 credit seminar, expecta
