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Featuring 113 primary source documents; The U.S. Constitution: A Reader was developed for teaching the core course on the U.S. Constitution at Hillsdale College. Divided into eleven sections with introductions by members of Hillsdale's Politics Department faculty; readings cover: -the principles of the American founding;-the framing and structure of the Constitution;-the secession crisis and the Civil War;-the Progressive rejection of the Constitution; and-the building of the administrative state based on Progressive principles.America's Founders created a form of government which had; in the words of James Madison; "no model on the face of the earth." Its moral foundation is in the Declaration of Independence and its principle of equal natural rights. Under the Constitution; government was to be limited to protecting those rights. In recent decades; the way our government operates has departed from the Constitution. Government has become less limited; and our liberties less secure. At the same time; true civic education in America--education in the Constitution--has largely died out. We at Hillsdale College see it as one of our highest duties to reverse this.