Resources for Teaching Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy in James Madison College

This major “probes competing principles that have animated political communities and how we have attempted to translate these into practice. We raise complex fundamental questions as we try to sort out the values and principles that have been most important to us. What does it mean to flourish as a human being? What are the rights and responsibilities of good citizens? What is the best way of life for society as a whole?” The approach is both philosophical and historical, designed to teach students to think about these questions “in a productive and intellectually exciting way.” (http://jmc.msu.edu/major/ptcd/ [1])