Donald S. Lutz is a professor of political philosophy in the department of political science at the University of Houston, where he has been teaching since 1968. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University. He is the author of eleven books, including Colonial Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History (1998), A Preface to American Political Theory, (1992), and The Origins of American Constitutionalism (1988), and numerous articles published in American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Publius: The Journal of Politics, Social Science Quarterly, the Annals of Political Science and History, and Western Political Quarterly, among others.
1. Constitutionalism - an initial overview and introduction
2. Sovereignty
3. Popular sovereignty
4. The separation of powers
5. Analyzing the interaction between popular control and separation of powers in the amendment process
6. Matching a government to a people
7. An overview of the constitutional design project
8. An underlying constitutional logic - rational actors?
