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Be a Better Informed Poster:
Take Constitution 101 Hillsdale College Online Courses​

Constitution 101​

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Lecture Summary

American political history is defined by three great crises. The first crisis was the American Revolution, which was declared on July 4, 1776 but whose roots can be traced back at least to 1763. That period of crisis ended with the election of Thomas Jefferson as president in what has become known as the “Revolution of 1800.”

The second crisis was the crisis over slavery that culminated in the Civil War. While the Founders had opposed slavery in principle, but had been forced to compromise with the institution in practice for the sake of the Union, the rise of the “positive good” school of slavery in the South marked a turn away from the Founders’ principles, and their practice. In response, Abraham Lincoln explained and defended the Founder’s approach.

The third great crisis, which continues today, is the challenge of Progressivism, a movement founded by Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and others. The Progressives rejected the Founders’ principles, including their notions of a fixed human nature and inalienable natural rights. Instead, they believed in a human nature that evolved and changed, which in turn justified their efforts to break down separation of powers in order to expand the size and scope of government far beyond the Founders’ intent.

In order to understand fully the previous crises, and to be able to respond well to the current crisis, we must understand the causes of America.

America has four causes—a material cause: primarily the land and the people; an efficient cause: the Founding Founders who led the Revolution in the name of the American people; a formal cause: the Constitution, especially the structure of government it establishes; and a final cause: the principles of free government outlined in the Declaration of Independence.

With this background, we can answer the question: Was the American Founding revolutionary or conservative? In fact it was both: It sought to conserve the oldest and highest law, which according to the Declaration of Independence is “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” The Founders compared the natural law to the conventional law under which they lived, and—as described so eloquently and succinctly in the Declaration of Independence—determined that a revolution was justified in the name of this higher law.

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It is free. It is interesting. It will make you a better informed poster. It will help you better appreciate America. It will help you appreciate the Tea Party. It will help you recognize the importance of our Constitution. It will help you recognize how today's Progressives got started and why they represent a crisis in America today. It will help make USMB a more interesting forum with a higher level of debate.

I've started taking the course and if you don't you will feel left behind when the rest of the posters do it.

Take pride in America because it's formation and construction was made this way for you.

Discuss anything and everything in the course in this thread.

With that in mind, Dr. Arnn needs to work on his elocution and enunciation. If it wasn't for the subtitles I'd be pretty critical of this course.

He seems like a great guy. A great teacher. But hard to understand all of the time.