Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1977 - 5/31/1978

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


The Moral Foundations of the Constitution

FAIN: FB-13100-77

Wade Robison
Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, MI 49006-3295)

To examine particular substantive Constitutional problems, to understand and articulate their moral complexities, and to assess proposed solutions in terms of whether they are both morally permissible (or obligatory) and Constitutionally plausible, and to articulate a moral theory which would underlie both particular substantive provisions and decisions and the Constitution itself.