The mission of the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy is to promote scholarship and undergraduate teaching that are informed by political theory and by the political science of the American Founding.

In its undergraduate program, the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy has sought to revive the spirit and intent of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison’s “Rockfish Gap Report” (1818), which recommends a curriculum of political studies for higher education that is designed to foster an enlightened body of citizens for a liberal democracy. Since the Program’s inception in 2006, PCD fellows have regularly taught a course on the American Political Tradition, and an offering in American Political Economy was added in the spring of 2014. Through an informal consortium of programs at other colleges and universities, the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy encourages the development of similar courses across the nation.

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