HIST 2476 - United States Legal History Course uri icon

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  • Surveys U.S. legal history from the founding era to today. It covers legal ideas that shaped the drafting of the Constitution and examines the pressures that tested that founding document through the present. It addresses legal debates in contexts of territorial expansion, industrial development, financial crisis, shifting demographics, and both civil and world war. It considers how slavery, civil rights, race, regulation, economic expansion, privacy, and equality contributed to various understandings of citizenship.