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Summer 2024 and Fall 2024
Undergraduate Courses
POLS 3815
3815. United States Constitutional Dictatorships
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
An evaluation of America’s founding Constitution as an anti-democratic text that can be interpreted to enable a dictatorship. Political theories and constitutional interpretations of democracy and dictatorship. Examination of case studies that document how dictatorial interpretations of the Constitution have been used to legitimate the oppression of various groups of people, including women and people of color.