Investigation and teaching of Constitutional Law: Notes and materials for understanding an inclusive Constitutionalism

Abstract

This work reflects the experience of teaching and investigating Constitutional Law from a critical perspective and, specifically, in the historical analysis of the bills of Rights of the Constitutions, their protagonists and the groups that were excluded during the time when rights were constructed. It encompasses the study of the history of fundamental rights, underlining the inequality of women and men as present at the beginning of constitutionalism, and the proposals of that time for giving a greater dimension to the idea of equality. The subject centers on the history of North-American and French constitutionalism. More emphasis is given to North-American history and, for that matter, guides for teaching are included. These take the form of timelines or chronological summaries, and come with a new translation to Spanish of a political document of importance in the history of constitutionalism: the Declaration of Sentiments (Seneca Falls) of 1848, as well as a summary schematic comparing the Declarations of 1776 and of 1848.