1. In the context of English speaking culture,
what are the main lines of historical, political,
economic and cultural transformation
through which individuals have affirmed
themselves as individual moral and political
actors?
How did political institutions come to be
representative and democratic?
How did the republican constitutional
concept develop? What are its main
ingredients?

2. THE
CREATION
OF THE
AMERICAN
REPUBLIC
1776-1787
by GORDON S. WOOD

3. 1776
THE AMERICAN COLONIES
ADOPTED THE DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE

5. ALL MEN ARE CREATED
EQUAL

6. 1787
THE UNITED STATES
CONSTITUTION WAS ADOPTED

8. “We the people of the United States, in
order to form a more perfect union,
establish Justice, ensure domestic
Tranquillity, provide for the common
defence, promote the general Welfare,
and secure the Blessings of Liberty to
ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain
and establish this Constitution of the
United States of America”

9. The American Constitution is
a compact between people

10. The Sovereignty of the People

11. Representation: a key
conception in the American
political system

12. America: a representative
democracy

13. A revolution in the history of
politics: the rulers are the
ruled and the ruled are the
rulers

14. A new idea of people

15. An institutionalized revolution

16. The American system of
government