Constitutional Institute: The Constitutional Rights Foundation’s Seminar with a Scholar
August 1 - 3, 2006, staff from the Constitutional Rights Foundation delivered a three-day workshop focused on the founding documents and principles of American democracy. Jack Rakove from Stanford University lectured on historical content while CRF staff led participants in classroom-ready activities.
Presentations focused on the Constitution and other founding documents and the times in which they were written.
Listen to Dr. Rakove's lectures:
- 250 Years of Political Theory: Machiavelli, Locke, and Montesquieu (MP3 Format, 50MB, 1 hr 45 min)
- Madison's Vices of the Political System (MP3 Format, 32MB, 1 hr)
- The Philadelphia Convention (MP3 Format, 42MB, 1 hr 23 min)
- The Bill of Rights (MP3 Format, 38MB, 1 hr 15 min)
Readings:
Readings:
- Bill of Rights in Action (Fall 2000)
- Federalist No. 37
- Madison/Jefferson Correspondence on a Bill of Rights:
- James Madison, Vices of the Political System of the United States
- Jack Rakove's Original Meanings reviewed by Stephen Siegel
- "The I-Word," Salon, June 9, 2005
- "Why the Rush To Open Up the Presidency?" San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 17, 2004
- "Who Declares a War?", New York Times, August 4, 2002
- "A Faulty Rethinking of the 2d Amendment," New York Times, May 12, 2002
- "Judges: Conferring a Lifetime of Ideology," New York Times, May 13, 2001
- "A Nation Still Learning What Madison Knew," New York Times, March 11, 2001
- "The Accidental Electors," New York Times, December 19, 2000
- "Butterflies, Chads and History," New York Times, November 29, 2000
- "Before the Trial, Ask the Pivotal Question," New York Times, Jan. 12, 1999