The founders and the idea of a national university : constituting the American mind
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The founders and the idea of a national university : constituting the American mind
Cambridge University Press, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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This book examines the ideas of the Founders with regard to establishing a national university and what those ideas say about their understanding of America. It offers the first study on the idea of a national university and how the Founders understood it as an important feature in an educational system that would sustain the American experiment in democracy. Their ideas about education suggest that shaping the American mind is essential to the success of the Constitution and that this is something that future generations would need to continue to do.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The national-university vision and American constitutionalism
- 2. The national university and constitutional limits
- 3. The national university and state institutions
- 4. Constituting the university
- 5. Education, the national university, and constituting national identity
- 6. The civic dimensions of American constitutionalism
- Conclusion: the Constitution and the American mind.
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