| FT-57612-10 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | George Thomas | The National University and Sustaining the Constitutional Order | 5/1/2010 - 9/30/2010 | $6,000.00 | George | | Thomas | | | | Claremont McKenna College | Claremont | CA | 91711-5929 | USA | 2010 | Political Science, General | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 |
"The National University and Sustaining the Constitutional Order," will offer the first in depth study of the efforts to establish a national university from a constitutional perspective. The national university was seen as a vital means to further constitute us as a people: creating an institution that was a necessary supplement to the formal institutions of government, it would help "constitute" the American mind in a manner that carried forward the constitutional enterprise. This project seeks to give us a more rounded understanding of modern constitutionalism, as it depends on fostering the mind-set of its citizens. In this, the debate over a national university speaks to the role of knowledge, education and a constitutional citizenry in sustaining the American constitutional order and gives us a more "civic" understanding of our Constitution, which is too often reduced to law enforced by the courts. |