Gateway Course / HS Program Web Repository

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Drawing from the gateway course for our Constitutional Studies Minor and our high school Leadership Seminar, this online repository features resources that explore a few central questions about the American experiment:

  • What are the essential principles of America’s experiment in self-government?

  • To what extent have those principles been realized (or contradicted) over the course of American history?

  • What is the relationship between liberty and equality?

  • How has the American political philosophy developed, for better or for worse, in the 20th and 21st centuries?

  • How can those developments be seen in key areas of constitutional law?

Through introductory videos, recorded lectures, primary text readings, and more, these resources provide a glimpse into the academic mission of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government.

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