Constitutions answer basic questions about who rules and to what ends. Looking at the U.S. Constitution through this lens helps us frame the question that will guide us the rest of the semester: "What is the Constitution"?

What is the Constitution?

The 1787 Project is the podcast version of the lectures for Professor Justin Dyer's socially-distanced class on the U.S. Constitution at the University of Missouri. Running from August 2020 - May 2021, the course is about how the U.S. Constitution of 1787 frames the way we organize our life together as a political community. Published twice a week, the episodes explore who gets to decide big questions of public policy and why, analyze the design of our national political institutions and the contested boundaries between them, and look at the structure of constitutional rights.

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What is the Constitution?

What is the Constitution?