We The People: Your Constitution and Citizenship
by admin - January 28th, 2012
On Monday 1/30 our class will focus on the Constitution, and on the “Constitutional moment,” i.e. the era and cultural milieu in which it was framed. Your reading is Chapter 2 of Schudson’s Good Citizen and also the full text of the US Constitution. You’ll want to bring both of these items to class. The Constitution can be found in the back of any US history textbook you have on hand, or you can print a copy from the web, or download it as a mobile app. I’m teaching a Constitutional History course in the night school, and we’ve discovered that Pocket Constitution is pretty good, as is Multieducator’s Constitution + Federalist Papers (ps, for more law and government-related mobile apps, see here).
Monday’s soapbox speakers are Tim Bickford, Joey Teevens and Chuck Trainer.
Also: I noticed a typo on the pretty version of the syllabus (which I hope would be obvious once you sat down to do the reading) – Wed’s reading out of Good Citizen should say Chapter 3 up to p. 110 (not p. 10).
