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The civil liberties and constitutional protection under the law possessed by our nation's citizens - not only in theory, but in the courtroom, where the state can be required to honor those liberties - are a exclusively American invention. So when we were trained history and learned about the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, we were always made alert to that uniqueness, of the remarkable experiment that offered to every citizen of this new country a present possessed by no others. You will learn precisely what that present was - in a series of 36 lectures predicated on Supreme Court opinions from a large number of the Court's most important landmark decisions, provided by an award-winning professor who's also an internationally recognized expert in constitutional rules. You'll learn just what liberties and protection under the law the Founders sought the new government to protect, as well as how exactly we get from what Teacher Finn phone calls the Constitution's "wonderfully stretchy and vague" language to the finely tuned specifics of the Supreme Court's opinions about talk, abortion, and faith, and so considerably more. And you'll grasp the hard fact that no subject how unwavering the Constitution's language on any subject can happen, things are almost invariably more complicated than it could seem initially reading. The effect is a legacy of questions that multiplies with each transferring decade, and talks about why decades of jurists and legal scholars, not to mention legislators, presidents, and citizens, have argued such a long time and hard about the meaning of what often appears to be unambiguous phrasing.
