Your Weekly Constitutional

Join us every week as we update Podcasts from Your Weekly Constitutional radio show that airs each Sunday on WVTF at 7:00 p.m. and WETS at 3:00 p.m. YWC's host is Stewart Harris, an award-winning law professor who loves to talk about the Constitution in a fun, accessible way that everyone can understand. 

Summer Seminars at Montpelier

Educators - Join us this summer for a seminar on We the People focusing on the Bill of Rights and a seminar on the War of 1812, America's Second War of Independence.

Announcing the Launch of ConText

The Center debuts its newest online resource: a crowd-sourced commentary of James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787.

New Online Course on the Constitution

Want to learn more about the Constitution, but you cannot travel to Orange, Virginia? Take our free online Introduction to the Constitution course and immerse yourself into the language of the Constitution.

The Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier

  • High-quality constitutional education for educators, journalists, elected officials, law enforcement, judges, international visitors, and business leaders
  • Residential programs at the home of "the Father of the Constitution"
  • Access to top scholars in constitutional education
  • A completely non-partisan approach
  • The hospitality you expect at the home of Dolley Madison
  • A reinvigorating and effective educational experience

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance…a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

- James Madison

Featured Programs

Introduction to the Constitution Online Seminar

Immerse yourself into the study of the U.S. Constitution with our new online seminar. 

2011-2012 Montpelier Seminars

Participants in a Montpelier Seminar live and study on the grounds of James Madison's Montpelier, one of the central sites of the American constitutional founding. 

2011-2012 We the People Seminars

"We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution" is an award-winning curriculum that offers classroom textbooks, free professional development for teachers, and a teacher's network.

 

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