The Science of the Constitution:
The Supreme Court and a Practice of Disagreement
Speaker:
Sonu Bedi
Joel Parker 1811 Professor in Law and Political Science
Professor of Government
Dartmouth College
Host:
Julie Rose
Associate Professor of Government
Dartmouth College
Lecture Info:
The current division between red and blue states is not a problem but arises as a feature of the science of the
U.S. Constitution. This lecture will draw on a speech by Frederick Douglass as the first political scientist of the
Constitution, the friendship between Justices Ginsburg and Scalia, and the practice of disagreement on the
Supreme Court as a way to explain how the science of the Constitution works. All of us, regardless of political
affiliation, can appreciate this science and the way the Constitution has endured since 1789.
