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Review the Constitution generally, and the Bill of Rights specifically,
and explain how and why understandings of citizens’ rights changed in
the mid-twentieth century.
What rights did the Constitution, as originally written (i.e., before the
addition of the Bill of Rights), protect? What rights did the Bill of Rights
add? How did the Fourteenth Amendment and the process of
incorporation change the nature of the Bill of Rights? What new rights
would be added from the 1950s through the 1970s?
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HIS 303 Week 5 DQ 1 Conservative Constitutionalism (Ash)
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Conservative Constitutionalism. Historians sometimes speak of the
“Reagan Revolution” that occurred after Ronald Reagan became
president in 1981. This revolution represented a conservative backlash
against the liberalism of the first half of the twentieth century, and
arguably continues to set the tone of political debate in the country today.
Identify the key ideological components of the conservative
constitutionalism associated with the Reagan Era and the Rehnquist
Court. In practice, how did conservative constitutionalism affect
American politics and the American government? Has the influence of