Government

Textbooks often present the “founding fathers” as great and stalwart men, somehow seeming almost infallible. In reality, those men were influenced by historical and sociological forces of their day which would show them to be very human and not always united. This class will glimpse these and related matters as it sets a context for better understanding the U.S. governmental structure and how it came to be as what is. More about this can be read in the class syllabus at left.