Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy (PTCD) probes the major competing principles that have animated political communities and attempts to translate them into practice and the complex fundamental questions in trying to sort out values and principles that have been most important to humankind. Such questions include what it means to flourish as a human being, what the rights and responsibilities of good citizens are, and what the best way of life is for society as a whole. The program seeks not to pretend to have the definitive answers to these questions, but rather to teach students how to think about these concepts and how to approach these questions in a productive and intellectually exciting way.