#founding era & history

A Plea for Free Speech in Boston, Remembering Frederick Douglass's 1860 Speech

Talks with Authors: Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America

Sons of Liberty [The FedSoc Films Podcast]

Becoming a Revolutionary | Son of Liberty, Man of Law: John Adams & the Boston Massacre Trial

The Mind of James Madison | Madison and the Fight for the Constitution

The Adams Family | Son of Liberty, Man of Law: John Adams & the Boston Massacre Trial

Pennsylvania’s Populist Constitution | The Drafting of America’s First Constitutions

James Madison Award Presentation [Archive Collection]

Portrait of an American: Frederick Douglass on “Pictures and Progress”

The Importance of State Constitutions | The Drafting of America’s First Constitutions

Humility & Influence | Madison and the Fight for the Constitution

Banquet, Founders & Foes (An Exchange)

V: Modern Debates, Old Insights: The Federalists, Anti-Federalists, and Executive Power (Panel)

IV: Resolved: The Federalists Designed a Constitution of Plenary Federal Power (Debate)

III: 21st Century Federalism: A View from the States (Roundtable)

II: The Anti-Federalists: Planting Seeds of American Populism (Panel)

I: Were the Founders Themselves Originalists? (Panel)

Dolley Madison: Republican Queen | Madison and the Fight for the Constitution

The Constitutionalism of Frederick Douglass | Image of an American: Frederick Douglass and the Right to Vote

Panel IV: The Anti-Federalists after 200 Years: Pundits or Prophets?

Debate: The Federalist and the Contemporary Debate on Term Limits [Archive Collection]

Panel III: Liberty and Constitutional Architecture [Archive Collection]

Panel II: To Govern and Be Governed: The Federalist's Vision of Representative Democracy [Archive Collection]

Panel I: Philosophical Foundations of The Federalist: The Nature of Law and the Nature of Man [Archive Collection]

Panel II: How Effective Are Bills of Rights in Protecting Freedom and Civil Liberties? [Archive Collection]

Panel III: The Bill of Rights and Governmental Structure: Republicanism and Mediating Institutions [Archive Collection]

Panel I: Should the Bill of Rights Fully Protect Fundamental Freedoms? [Archive Collection]

Deep Dive 186 – Teaching About Race in the Curriculum

Panel II: Property and the Constitution [Archive Collection]

They Called Him Mr. President | American Cincinnatus: George Washington Lays Down His Sword

Necessary & Proper Episode 67: Non-Delegation? Or No Divesting? Art. I, Sec. 1 at the Founding and Today

America’s Prohibition | American Craft: What Beer Can Teach Us About Well-Crafted Laws

BONUS: Why Law School Students Should Read Locke & Montesquieu

The Second Founding: Originalism and the Fourteenth Amendment

BONUS: What Did John Locke Say About Religious Toleration? [The Philosophers Behind the Founders]

Necessary & Proper Episode 66: Federalist Papers Book Club – The Senate

Necessary & Proper Episode 65: Federalist Papers Book Club – The House of Representatives

George Washington: Not Just Another Founder | American Cincinnatus

Necessary & Proper Episode 64: Federalist Papers Book Club – The Separation of Powers

Panel V: The Freedom of Association [Archive Collection]

Washington Bids Farewell | American Cincinnatus

The Laws, the Leviathan, & the Prince | The Philosophers Behind the Founders

Panel I: The Political Process and the First Amendment [Archive Collection]

Montesquieu’s Constitution | The Philosophers Behind the Founders

John Locke & the Right to Revolution | The Philosophers Behind the Founders

Founding Friends | Blueprint for American Rights

America’s Tag Team Philosophers | The Philosophers Behind the Founders

Episode Zero | What is the FedSoc Films Podcast?

Necessary & Proper Episode 60: Supreme Court Nominations and the Perils of Court-Packing

Panel IV: The Role of the Legislative and Executive Branches in Interpreting the Constitution [Archive Collection]