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Constitution Day

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Here you will find lectures that members of the History Department at St. Bonaventure University prepared on the U. S. Constitution during the summer 2006 as part of the Teachers Discovering History as Historians program, a Teaching American History initiative. 

Historical Resources on the Background to the Constitution

Magna Carta (1215) Declaration of Independence (Avalon Project)
Mayflower Compact NARA:  Constitution of the United States, A History
Avalon Project:  Texts of State Constitutions Articles of Confederation  

Debating and Ratifying the Constitution

Philadelphia Convention   Federalist Papers on Avalon Project
Patterson Plan Library of Congress, Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
Notes of the Secret Debates of the Constitutional Convention James Madison’s Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers   Anti-Federalist Papers at the Constitution Society

The Constitution

United States Constitution “The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights,” Digital History

Teaching the Constitution

House of Representatives Constitution Education Edsitement, National Endowment for the Humanities
National Archives and Record Administration Teachers Discovering History as Historians
National Constitution Center (Lesson Plans) Teaching American History

Interpretation and Contemporary Constitutional Issues

Original IntentThe US Constitution Online  
Supreme Court of the United States  

 Historic Controversies

Alien and Sedition Acts (1790s) with Kentucky and Virginia Resolution Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Dred Scott Decision Watergate

Dr. Karen Robbins on the Events Leading to the Constitutional Convention

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Dr. Karen Robbins on the Constitutional Convention

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Dr. Mark Huddle on Civil Liberties in the 1790s (Alien and Sedition Acts)

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Dr. Mark Huddle on Lincoln and Civil Liberties

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Dr. Phillip Payne on the Constitution and Reconstruction

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Dr. Phillip Payne on the Constitution and Industrialization

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