WORKSHOP: The American Constitution: A Conference on the 225th Anniversary of the Ratification

美国宪法：美国宪法批准225周年会议的学术价值美国共和国的诞生已经被历史学、法学、政治学和经济学的学者研究过。尽管对建国时代进行了两个多世纪的流行和学术研究，但理论和数据的整合才刚刚开始。该项目支持一个为期两天的会议，以检验现有的理论和数据分析是否可能改善对美国建国的研究。适逢宪法批准225周年，会议将邀请一些使用统计和空间尺度技术的政治学家和经济学家，以及了解这一事件背后的历史和法律传统的历史学家、法学教授和美国早期政治思想专家。目标将是通过充分了解历史和法律来更科学地理解美国的开国大业。与会学者将讨论检验有关美国建国的猜想的最佳方法，下一代研究需要什么数据，以及将定量方法应用于200多年前的事件的可行性。会议还将在国家科学基金会(Dougherty和Heckelman，2010年)的支持下，传播制宪大会代表投票的广泛数据集。更广泛的影响为了确保会议获得尽可能广泛的影响，专家演讲将通过网络广播提供，来自传统上代表性较低的机构的教师将通过公开征文招聘，来自东道主和其他大学的研究生将成为正式参与者，本科生将有机会在本科生海报会议上展示他们的研究。这将允许学生直接从专家那里学习，并获得关于他们对美国建国的看法的反馈。所有会议将向公众开放，并将在整个地区进行广告宣传。

AbstractThe American Constitution: A Conference on the 225th Anniversary of the Ratification Intellectual MeritThe birth of the American republic has been studied by scholars in history, law, political science, and economics. Despite over two centuries of popular and scholarly study of the Founding Era, the integration of theory and data is just beginning. This project supports a two a two-day conference that examines whether established theory and data analysis might improve research on the American Founding. Coinciding with the 225th anniversary of the ratification of the Constitution, the conference will host a number of political scientists and economists who use statistical and spatial scaling techniques as well as historians, law professors and experts in early American political thought who understand the history and legal traditions behind the event. The goal will be to attain a more scientific understanding of the American Founding that is well informed by history and law. Participating scholars will discuss the best ways to test conjectures about the American Founding, what data is needed for the next generation of studies, and the viability of applying quantitative methods to an event over two hundred years old. The conference will also disseminate an extensive data set on delegate votes at the Constitutional Convention gathered with support from the National Science Foundation (Dougherty and Heckelman 2010). Broader ImpactTo assure that the conference attains the broadest possible impact, expert presentations will be made available via webcasts, faculty from traditionally under represented institutions will be recruited through an open call for papers, graduate students from the host and other universities will be among the full participants, and undergraduates will have an opportunity to present their research in an undergraduate poster session. This will allow students to learn directly from the experts and to get feedback on their own ideas about the American Founding. All sessions will be open to the public, which will be advertised throughout the region.