Constitutional Law: Money and the Making of American Capitalism

Harvard HLS

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: In Class According to one of the framers, the “soul of the Constitution” was the clause allocating authority over money. Over the following centuries, money has remained at the center of debates over governance, including federalism and national power, American approaches to economic development and social welfare, the scope of judicial review, economically structured race discrimination, the ascendance of banks, and access to…