Elizabeth Beaumont has a Ph.D. in political science and is an associate professor of politics and legal studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on constitutionalism, democracy, citizenship and civic engagement and education. She is also the author of “The Civic Constitution: Civic Visions and Struggles in the Path Toward Constitutional Democracy,” which looks at how 18th-century revolutionaries, anti-federalists, abolitionists and women suffragists influenced the U.S. Constitution’s text, power divides, citizenship, and the meanings of rights.
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