Reordering American Constitutional Law Teaching

Abstract

Constitutional law is the cornerstone of an undergraduate public law curriculum. Political scientists will therefore want to teach constitutional law in the most effective manner possible. To that end, there is a welcome trend to offer constitutional law as a two-semester sequence, a trend reflected by text authors and publishers who are increasingly dividing their constitutional law texts into two parts (Mezey 1993, 2). I say welcome trend because, as anyone who has taught constitutional law knows, there is too much material to cover adequately in one semester.