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Apr 20, 2024
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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HIS 452 Creation of the American NationFall-Spring Semesters
This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the process through which the United States Constitution was created and the national government was established. The initial focus will be on the Enlightenment philosophy that guided the founders. From there the course will assess the Articles of Confederation and the various motives for replacing the Articles with the U.S. Constitution. The course will then explore the travails that characterized the ratification process as well as the evolution of the American political party system. The course will conclude with an examination of the basic Constitutional challenges involved in the election of 1800. This course is one of the Proseminar courses that can be taken as a prerequesite for History Seminar.
3 credit hours
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