Reflection and Choice versus Accident and Force: The Making of the Constitution

November 2, 2013

Required Readings

• James Madison’s Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 (excerpts) (May 31 and June 6, 1787)

• Constitution of the United States (September 17, 1787)

• Brutus I (October 18, 1787)

• The Federalist No. 1 (October 27, 1787)

• Brutus II (November 1, 1787)

• The Federalist No. 10 (November 22, 1787)

• The Federalist No. 51 (February 6, 1788)

Presenters

• Christopher Burkett, Associate Professor of Political Science at Ashland University

• Peter Schramm, Senior Fellow and Ashbrook Scholar Program Director at Ashland University

• Gordon Lloyd, Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty at Ashland University