[Poser]

Perhaps you get what you pay for, butt...

I signed up for the previous set of four lectures by Larry Ahrn (sp?) and was somewhat disappointed. He spent the entire time talking about the Declaration of Independence and its relation to the Constitution. While that is nice to know, it has little legal bearing on the Constitution and how it is now interpreted and/or how it was meant to be interpreted by our current legislatures and courts.

I signed up for this set and am hoping to get a blow by blow account of each section and the Federalist Papers that explain the intentions of the framers. That is what I try to teach to my students.

[OneWingedShark]

>While that is nice to know, it has little legal bearing on the Constitution and how it is now interpreted and/or how it was meant to be interpreted by our current legislatures and courts.

Actually it should have a LOT of impact on how it is interpreted; the Declaration of Independence is the work order to the design-document of the Constitution.
Furthermore, the Declaration is Organic Law ( http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/organiclaws.txt ) and that means that there are REAL legal implications here; there’s an interesting read here:
http://adask.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/the-organic-laws-of-the-united-states-of-america/

[hinckley buzzard]

This course will be different. The earlier series you mention was clear that its subject was the organic link between Declaration and Constitution. This is a special interest to Arne and one he talks about often.