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Quick Course | Constitutional Convention – Lecture 6

On July 4, 1854, the antislavery activist William Lloyd Garrison publicly burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, condemning it as “a Covenant with Death, an Agreement with Hell.” Was he right that the...

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Quick Course | Constitutional Convention – Lecture 5

This lecture offers two contrasting answers to the question: Was the Constitution the Culmination of the Revolution?  First, by arguing that the Constitution was a conservative coup d’etat, this...

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Quick Course | Constitutional Convention – Lecture 4

In its first week, the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was confronted with a motion by James Wilson “that the executive consist of a single person.” From that moment forward, there were heated...

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Quick Course | Constitutional Convention – Lecture 3

This lecture asks why James Madison, often consider the mastermind of the Constitution, was disappointed in its outcome.  Madison had drawn up the Virginia plan which included a stronger national...

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Quick Course | Constitutional Convention – Lecture 2

Lecture 2: Organizing the Convention In this lecture, Butterfield will look at the most basic question of all: what kinds of rules and procedures did the delegates to the Constitutional Convention...

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Quick Course | Constitutional Convention – Lecture 1

Lecture 1: Why was there a Constitutional Convention? In an effort to explain why there was a Constitutional Convention, this lecture first challenges the traditional discussion of the weaknesses of...

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Quick Course | Constitutional Convention – Introduction

In this six-part lecture series, historians Paul Gilje and Kevin Butterfield examine the Constitutional Convention that met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Gilje and Butterfield pay close...

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