The Intellectual Origins of the Founding and Civil War Constitution
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2024-06-17 11:00:00
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The Intellectual Origins of the Founding and Civil War Constitution
Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/intellectual-origins-founding-and-civil-war-constitution
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University of Chicago Law School
blog@law.uchicago.edu
America/Chicago
public
Open to the public
Political theorist William B. Allen, editor and translator of a new edition of Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws, and Alison LaCroix, author of The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms, explore the intellectual foundations—from Montesquieu and beyond—of the U.S. constitutional vision and core values from America’s founding through the Civil War.
This event is presented by the National Constitution Center. Event time is 12:00 p.m. ET, 11:00 a.m. CT.