The U.S. Constitution: A Reader

The U.S. Constitution: A Reader

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Featuring <b>113 primary source documents</b>, <i>The U.S. Constitution: A Reader</i> was developed for teaching the core course on the U.S. Constitution at <b>Hillsdale College</b>. <P>Divided into <b>eleven sections</b> with introductions by members of Hillsdale's Politics Department faculty, readings cover: <BR>-the principles of the American founding;<BR>-the framing and structure of the Constitution;<BR>-the secession crisis and the Civil War;<BR>-the Progressive rejection of the Constitution; and<BR>-the building of the administrative state based on Progressive principles.<P>America's Founders created a form of government which had, in the words of James Madison, <b>"no model on the face of the earth."</b> Its moral foundation is in the Declaration of Independence and its principle of equal natural rights. Under the Constitution, <b>government was to be limited to protecting those rights.</b> <P>In recent decades, the way our government operates has departed from the Constitution. <b>Government has become less limited, and our liberties less secure.</b> At the same time, true civic education in America--education in the Constitution--has largely died out. We at Hillsdale College see it as one of our highest duties to reverse this.