The Relationship Between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
In 1776, the Continental Congress declared the birth of a new nation. Six of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence went on to craft and sign the ...
The Federalist Society
The United States Constitution and Bill of Rights
A whiteboard video on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. My students use the following textbook, some of whose units I have intended to summarize with ...
Ryan Hill
HLS Library Book Talk | Constitutional Democracy in Crisis?
On Oct. 3 the Harvard Law School Library hosted a book talk and panel discussion on "Constitutional Democracy in Crisis?" edited by Mark A. Graber, Sanford ...
Harvard Law School
Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution: Crash Course World History #28
In which John Green teaches you about the American Revolution and the American Revolutionary War, which it turns out were two different things. John goes ...
CrashCourse
Originalism and Constitutional Property Rights Jurisprudence [2019 National Lawyers Convention]
On November 16, 2019, the Federalist Society's Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group hosted a panel for the 2019 National Lawyers Convention ...
The Federalist Society
Originalism and Constitutional Property Rights Jurisprudence [2019 NLC]
Much controversy surrounds the extent to which the United States Constitution protects property rights. During the New Deal, most constitutional property rights ...
The Federalist Society
The Making of the American Constitution - Judy Walton
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/who-made-the-american-constitution-judy-walton How did a meeting intended to revise the Articles of Confederation ...
TED-Ed
Federalism: Crash Course Government and Politics #4
In which Craig Benzine teaches you about federalism, or the idea that in the United States, power is divided between the national government and the 50 state ...
CrashCourse
The 2020 Scalia Lecture | Mary Ann Glendon: Who Needs Foreign Law?
The Justice Antonin Scalia Lecture series was established in 2013 by an anonymous donor to promote and advance the understanding of the founding ...
Harvard Law School
The Constitution & Madison's 3 Big Ideas
James Madison's Montpelier discusses three of Madison's biggest ideas and contributions to the Constitution: extending the sphere, federalism, and the ...
James Madison's Montpelier
US Constitution video Part 3 Slavery
Part 3 of 3 videos on the United States Constitution. In this video I briefly address one of the most criticized aspects of the 1787 constitutional convention: How it ...
Peter Wielhouwer
Eric Foner: Reconstruction and the Constitution
With debates over citizenship, voting rights, and due process raging, Columbia University historian Eric Foner wants us to reexamine the moment these rights ...
Chicago Humanities Festival
I Ain't No Three Fifths of a Person: Slavery and the Constitution
I Ain't No Three Fifths of a Person: Slavery and the Constitution explores the reactions and perspectives of key members of the Mount Vernon and Monticello ...
Fairfax Network - Fairfax County Public Schools
Conversations with History: Chalmers Johnson
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Chalmers Johnson for a discussion of his new book, Nemesis. In the interview, Johnson, an Emeritus Professor of ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
The Fourth Amendment and Privacy: Historical Perspectives
Join three back-to-back discussions with leading federal judges and legal scholars for an exploration of the Fourth Amendment's guarantees against ...
National Constitution Center
Virginia Declaration of Rights
Virginia was the first state to include a bill of rights in its constitution. 60-Second Civics, Episode 3603: May 3, 2019 Subscribe and take the Daily Civics Quiz at ...
Center for Civic Education
Were the Framers Right About Constitutional Design? The US Constitution in Comparative Perspective
Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) The founding fathers were political theorists of the highest order, and founded the modern era of constitutional design. But how have ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Constitution Day: Noah Feldman on 'Madison, Slavery and the 3/5 Compromise'
To commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution, Professor Noah Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at HLS and one of the nation's leading ...
Harvard Law School
Judicial Decisions: Crash Course Government and Politics #22
Today, Craig Benzine is going to dive into the factors that influence judicial decisions. As you may have noticed, the Supreme Court recently handed down some ...
CrashCourse
James McPherson: Why the Civil War Still Matters
One of the nation's leading Civil War historians, James McPherson, explores why the war remains so deeply embedded in the national psyche and identity of ...
National Constitution Center
'Divided by a common language: British and American perspectives on Constitutional Law'
On Friday 24 February 2017, The Honourable Mr Justice Singh delivered the 2017 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Divided by a common language: British ...
Cambridge Law Faculty
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
In commemoration of Presidents' Day, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses his new book, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas ...
JFK Library
24. Creating a Nation
The American Revolution (HIST 116) Professor Freeman discusses the national debate over the proposed Constitution, arguing that in many ways, when ...
YaleCourses
Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy visits HLS
On October 22, Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, visited Harvard Law School and sat down for a conversation with ...
Harvard Law School
UPDATED LINK George Mason: The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights
In his latest book, George Mason, author William G. Hyland, Jr. brings a new biography of a forgotten Founding Father. Trained in the law, Mason was also a ...
US National Archives
The Bicameral Congress: Crash Course Government and Politics #2
In which Craig Benzine teaches you about the United States Congress, and why it's bicameral, and what bicameral means. Craig tells you what the Senate and ...
CrashCourse
The American Constitution
Lecture by Prof. John Witte, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor, Emory Law, for the Emory College Voluntary Core ...
Emory University
Lewis Lapham: Can America Survive the Rule of a “Stupified Plutocracy”?
When author and journalist Lewis Lapham, founder of Lapham's Quarterly and former editor of Harper's, turned his shrewd gaze on the go-go '80s in “Money ...
New Economic Thinking
LAW PROFESSOR AZIZ HUQ: HOW TO SAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY
Democracies are facing multiplying challenges—from structural changes to geopolitical shifts to cultural transformations. Though the United States remains one ...
Commonwealth Club of California
Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy: Crash Course US History #10
In which John Green teaches you about founding father and third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson is a somewhat controversial figure ...
CrashCourse
Understand the Constitution Blazing Fast (Freedomists Show Episode 6)
Quickly gain a basic understanding of what the U.S. Constitution is, why it was written, and what it says. Join the community here. http://www.freedomists.us/ ...
Freedomists
Lynn Hunt: The French Revolution in a Global Perspective
The second lecture, 'The French Revolution in a Global Perspective', of Professor Lynn Hunt's Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Historiography, University of ...
The Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust
Conferencia de Lawrence Solum sobre Originalismo y la Constitución argentina
Lawrence Solum, profesor de la Universidad de Georgetown, ex editor de la Harvard Law Review y uno de los académicos más influyentes de Estados Unidos, ...
Facultad de Derecho Universidad Austral
SCHOLAR EXCHANGE: America’s Founding Documents
The Advanced Placement (AP) exam has been rewritten for 2020 and covers three units with two free-response questions (FRQs). This fast-paced and fun ...
National Constitution Center
How African Americans Fought For & Won Birthright Citizenship 150 Years Before Trump Tried to End It
https://democracynow.org - As President Trump claims that he can end birthright citizenship in the United States, we speak with professor Martha Jones about ...
Democracy Now!
History and Principles of the Republican Party - Charles Kesler
Political parties, neither mentioned in the Constitution nor foreseen by the Founders, arose almost immediately and have, generally speaking, served the nation ...
Hillsdale College
Jonathan Haidt on the Social Psychology of Crisis | RSA Events
Before the pandemic outbreak, we had been living through a period of increasing polarisation. But now that Covid-19 crisis is revealing the full extent of our ...
The RSA
Three Constitutions: Republican; Democratic; and Consensus
Burt Neuborne at Cooper Union. October 4, 2012 The first in a series of nine free lectures delivered by Burt Neuborne, renown civil rights attorney and ...
The Cooper Union
The Legacy of Justice Scalia with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The McCloskey Speaker Series features Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in conversation with Aspen ...
The Aspen Institute
The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29
In which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed from the American Revolution. Was it the serial authoritarian ...
CrashCourse
U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST: 100 OFFICIAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (2021)
In this video, you will learn all the 100 official civics questions and answers for the U.S. Citizenship Test. The Civics test is a very important part of the ...
MyCitizenshipExam
The Electoral College: Why Such A Big Debate?
There's been 5 times in U.S. history where the guy who became president lost the popular vote, but won the electoral vote. And two of those times were just in ...
Above The Noise
