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Perspective

May 14, 2011

Education From a Constitutional Dimension

Constitutional law, values and traditions play a primary role in the evolution of the American university. By Rodney A. Smolla of Furman University


By Rodney A. Smolla


A lively discussion of the intersection between the constitutional values that have shaped the identity of the nation and the academic values that have shaped the identity of the American university.

Chapter 1

DE TOCQUEVILLE WITH A TWIST


Alexis de Tocqueville, in his classic nineteenth-century study of the United States, Democracy in America, observed that "scarcely an...

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