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US CONSTITUTION COURSE: TABLE OF CONTENTS
Lecture I: An American View of Law, Liberty and Government..................... 001
Objectives ............................................................................................... 001
Introduction ............................................................................................. 002

I. The American View of Law and Government ....................................................... 003
II. Comparison of American and Alternate Views of Government ................................... 005
III. Basic Principles of Law ............................................................................. 006

IV. What is a Constitution? ............................................................................. 007
V. The Role of History ................................................................................. 007

Lecture One Homework ............................................................................... 008
How Tyranny Came To America .......................................................................... 009
Sobran’s How Tyranny Came To America Constitution Quiz ........................................ 021

Lecture One Review .................................................................................... 023
Lecture One Test ........................................................................................ 025

True or False Questions................................................................................. 027

Lecture II: America’s Beginnings: Discovery, Purpose & the Founders’ Faith …… 029

Objectives ............................................................................................... 030
I. The Plan of God ....................................................................................... 031
II. The Age of Discovery (1492-1620)…………………………………………………………….. 031

III.The Positive Effect of a Biblical Worldview on American Political Theory, Economy and Culture... 032
IV. Puritan Political Theory ............................................................................ 033

V. The Framers of the Constitution: Christians or Deists? ........................................... 034
VI. The Framers’ Own Statements About Christianity ............................................... 036
VII. Conclusion ......................................................................................... 037

Lecture Two Homework ............................................................................... 038
Lecture Two Review .................................................................................... 039

Lecture Two Test ........................................................................................ 041
True or False Questions ................................................................................ 044

Lecture III: The Philosophical Worldview of the Constitution...................... 045

Objectives ............................................................................................... 046

I. Major Influences on the Framers ..................................................................... 047
II. The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God .......................................................... 050
III. Natural Rights ...................................................................................... 050
IV. Equality............................................................................................... 051