Obama’s policies erode separation of powers, integral to the U.S. Constitution. Find out why separation of powers is vital to your individual freedoms. One way to arm yourself is with knowledge of our basic political documents.
Measure whether Obama-Care is constitutional. Via the Internet, take the Constitution 101 class starting soon offerred by Hillsdale College. It’s the same class their students take. See below information about the class:
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Constitution 101 Schedule
Each lecture is pre-recorded and lasts approximately 40 minutes. Lectures and other study materials will be released by noon each Monday according to the schedule. Once released, they are available to view at your convenience.
You will receive an email each week informing you that new material is available.
Introduction: The American Mind
Larry P. Arnn
Monday, February 20
The Declaration of Independence
Thomas G. West
Monday, February 27
The Problem of Majority Tyranny
David Bobb
Monday, March 5
Separation of Powers: Preventing Tyranny
Kevin Portteus
Monday, March 12
Separation of Powers: Ensuring Good Government
Will Morrisey
Monday, March 19
Religion, Morality, and Property
David Bobb
Monday, March 26
Crisis of Constitutional Government
Will Morrisey
Monday, April 2
Abraham Lincoln and the Constitution
Kevin Portteus
Monday, April 9
The Progressive Rejection of the Founding
Ronald J. Pestritto
Monday, April 16
The Recovery of the Constitution
Larry P. Arnn
Monday, April 23
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Hillsdale College was founded in 1844 by men and women who proclaimed themselves “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings resulting from the prevalence of civil and religious liberty and intelligent piety in the land,†and who believed that “the diffusion of sound learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.â€
Hillsdale was the first American college to prohibit in its charter any discrimination based on race, sex, or national origin. Associated with the anti-slavery movement from its earliest days, it attracted to its campus anti-slavery leaders such as Frederick Douglass and Edward Everett, who preceded Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg. Several of the College’s leading men were instrumental in founding the new Republican party up the road in Jackson, Michigan, in 1854. And Hillsdale sent a larger percentage of its students to fight for the Union in the Civil War than any other American college or university except West Point. Two of those Hillsdale veterans helped carry Lincoln’s casket to the slain president’s final resting place in Springfield, Illinois.
Hillsdale’s modern rise to national prominence began in the 1970s, when the federal government attempted to impose a host of regulations on the College—including racial quota requirements that violated Hillsdale’s principled policy of nondiscrimination. When the Supreme Court upheld these regulations in the 1980s on the basis that Hillsdale students received federally funded grants and loans, the College decided to refuse even this indirect form of federal aid, replacing all federal student aid with privately funded grants, loans, and scholarships.
Hillsdale’s Board of Trustees pledged first that the College would continue its long-standing policy of nondiscrimination, and second that it would not accept any encroachments on its independence. It is a pledge that has been renewed several times in subsequent years and stands to date.
Today an independent, coeducational, residential liberal arts college with a student body of some 1,450 undergraduates, the College continues to carry out its original mission. With a core curriculum that comprises about one-half of courses a student needs to graduate, Hillsdale maintains its strong fidelity to the liberal arts.
In its outreach, too, the College teaches those same ideas that advance “civil and religious liberty.†Its many programs include the Center for Constructive Alternatives, one of the largest college lecture series in America; the Hoogland Center for Teacher Excellence, which holds seminars for high school teachers of civics and history; the National Leadership Seminars; the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, in Washington, D.C.; and Imprimis, a monthly newsletter that reaches over two million people.
In the fall of 2012, the Hillsdale College Graduate School of Statesmanship will start classes for M.A. and Ph.D. students in politics.
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