Event Details

End: May 15, 2019
Contact: MMarcus@nyhistory.org
More Info: https://www.nyhistory.org/education/higher-education/institute-constitutional-history

This seminar will explore the role played by the two seventeenth-century English Revolutions (of 1642-1660 and 1688-9) in the constitutional debates surrounding the American Revolution and the formation of the state and federal constitutions. Particular attention will be paid to the way in which English controversies about representation, the royal prerogative, and the history of parliament reemerged in the American context and shaped the development of the presidency. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Constitutional History at the New-York Historical Society and the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, the seminar will meet at Stanford Law School and will be led by Professors Eric Nelson and Michael McConnell. The seminar begins on July 7 and ends on July 12, 2019. 

Application deadline is May 15, 2019. For more information go to www.nyhistory.org/ich.