Speakers
Michael Zuckert
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Event Type
The Civic Discourse Project
Academic Year
2020-2021
Civic Discourse Project season
Race, Justice, and Leadership in America
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Slavery and the Constitution: a Neo-Madisonian Perspective
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Ever since the emergence of the abolitionist movement there has been great controversy over just how supportive of slavery the Constitution of the United States was. Neither side, Zuckert argues, was approaching the constitution in the way most revealing of the truth about slavery and the Constitution, a way Zuckert calls neo-Madisonian after the constitution’s chief architect, James Madison.