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SUMMARY:Educator Seminar: “Who are ‘the people’ in the U.S. Constitution?”
DESCRIPTION:The opening line of the Constitution reads: “We, the people of the US, in order to form a more perfect union . . . .” But who are “the people”? What did that phrase mean, legally and constitutionally? Topics to be covered include: the historical origins of representative government in the North American British colonies; the first state constitutions; representation and apportionment in the US Constitution, including the 3/5 clause; the status of native peoples; and the decision to leave voting qualifications up to the individual states, allowing women to vote in New Jersey from 1776-1807.\nRosemarie Zagarri is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. A specialist in the fields of early American political history, women and politics, and transnational history, Dr. Zagarri has published numerous articles and four books, including Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and has received numerous nationally competitive research fellowships, including awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1997-98, 2011-12), the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon. She was elected a Fellow of the Society of American Historians in 2023.\nHer current book project is Aspirations and Intimacies: Thomas Law in British India and the Early American Republic.\n
URL:https://www.montpelier.org/events/educator-seminar-the-people-in-the-constitution/
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