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Inventing a Nation: The Founders and the Myth of the "Original Meaning" of the Constitution
C.V Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture
October 18, 2011
Acclaimed historian Richard Beeman, Senior Fellow of the C.V Starr Center and the Institute for Religion, Politics and Culture, and winner of the 2010 George Washington Book Prize, began his four lecture series entitled "Inventing a Nation." This first lecture explored how the Founders themselves understood the meaning of many of the clauses which they drafted, and how they might have wished their Constitution to be interpreted by subsequent generations.
Additional Photos and Slideshow
Photos from Lecture 2: The Creation of the Bill of Rights
AUDIO for the Inventing the Nation series
Enlarge photos by Kathy Thornton '13.
