COURSE LEADERS: Judge Steve Bernard
MEETS: 6 Thursdays TIME: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
DATES COURSE MEETS: 9/24, 10/1, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5
PRICE: $70.00
LOCATION: 8081 E. Orchard Rd., Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Map
TYPE: Lecture,Q&A
CATEGORY: HISTORY
DESCRIPTION:
Learn about and discuss our founding documents and historical contexts of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Civil War Amendments. Discover how courts have looked at the way in which they interact to resolve important issues over time including slavery’s long shadow over American society; the expansion of individual rights over time; and the sometimes difficult balancing act of weighing individual rights against group interests.
RECOMMENDED READING:
Stewart, David O. The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution (The Simon & Schuster America Collection), 2008.
Amar, Akhill Reed. The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction .Yale University Press, 2000.
Peters, William. A More Perfect Union. Crown, 1987.