Outline of Three-Part Program on The United States Constitution

In this program, we will look at following questions:

· Where did the Constitution come from?

· Who wrote the Constitution?

· What’s in the Constitution (and what isn’t) ?

· What was the United States supposed to look like?

· What is the Constitution’s importance today?

The first session focuses on the Constitution’s origins and its first three articles, which designed the structure of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the new federal government.

The second session continues the examination of the three main branches of government and examines the remaining four articles of the constitution, which outline the relations between the states and the federal government, the processes for ratifying and amending the constitution, and the supremacy of federal law over state and local law in the United States.

The final session discusses the Bill of Rights and other amendments to the Constitution, as well as several important Supreme Court cases that interpreted key sections of the new constitutional framework of the young country.