The American Experiment: A 21st Century Assessment with Rogers M. Smith
Rogers M. Smith, Political Science University of Pennsylvania, explores what many founders called the the "American Experiment" in government embodied in the U.S. Constitution: a democratic republic, without a national church, devoted to fostering commerce, scientific progress and realizing the national motto, "E Pluribus Unum." Two and a third centuries later, whether America's constitutional democracy can form a more perfect union out of its ever-growing economic, religious, and racial and ethnic diversity is again the central test of the "American Experiment." Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures" [12/2011] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 23025]