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To celebrate Constitution Day, the Rutgers Law School chapter of the Federalist Society hosted Dr. Colleen Sheehan, one of the nation's leading Madison scholars, to discuss the constitutional thought of James Madison and his role as the "Father of the Constitution."Dr. Sheehan is the Director of Graduate Studies at the Arizona State School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership. She is author of the Cambridge Companion to The Federalist, co-edited with Jack Rakove (Cambridge, 2020), The Mind of James Madison: The Legacy of Classical Republicanism (Cambridge, 2015), James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government (Cambridge, 2009), and Friends of the Constitution: Writings of the "Other" Federalists, 1787-88 (with Gary L. McDowell, Liberty Fund, 1998).Featuring:- Dr. Colleen Sheehan, Director of Graduate Studies, Arizona State School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership.
To celebrate Constitution Day, the Rutgers Law School chapter of the Federalist Society hosted Dr. Colleen Sheehan, one of the nation's leading Madison scholars, to discuss the constitutional thought of James Madison and his role as the "Father of the Constitution."Dr. Sheehan is the Director of Graduate Studies at the Arizona State School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership. She is author of the Cambridge Companion to The Federalist, co-edited with Jack Rakove (Cambridge, 2020), The Mind of James Madison: The Legacy of Classical Republicanism (Cambridge, 2015), James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government (Cambridge, 2009), and Friends of the Constitution: Writings of the "Other" Federalists, 1787-88 (with Gary L. McDowell, Liberty Fund, 1998).Featuring:- Dr. Colleen Sheehan, Director of Graduate Studies, Arizona State School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership.
Professor Gordon Lloyd, Senior Fellow at the Ashbrook Center, author of TAH's four Exhibits on American History, and frequent instructor in our MAHG program and at teacher Seminars, conducted what is becoming something of an annual tradition: his Constitution Day lecture at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Watch the YouTube archive below, or listen to it as a podcast. iTunes Podcast Stitcher Podcast RSS
Professor Gordon Lloyd, Senior Fellow at the Ashbrook Center, author of TAH's four Exhibits on American History, and frequent instructor in our MAHG program and at teacher Seminars, conducted what is becoming something of an annual tradition: his Constitution Day lecture at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Watch the YouTube archive below, or listen to it as a podcast. iTunes Podcast Stitcher Podcast RSS Constitution Day Lecture from Professor Gordon Lloyd appeared first on Teaching American History.
Simpson is celebrating First Amendment Week this week — Sept. 16-20 — and Freedom Forum COO Gene Policinski came to campus to deliver the Constitution Day Lecture on Sept. 17 to 150 faculty, students and staff in Hubbell Hall. Policinski's talk was titled 'The Future of the First Amendment,' and he noted that it's not just the 45 words of the amendment that protect our five basic civil freedoms: Religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. Rather, it's the commitment of everyday Americans to use those rights and respects the rights of others to exercise their freedoms.
Examining the special relationship American Jews have had with the law, and tackling some of the thorniest controversies about the separation of Church and State. Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate, and in that capacity, has been writing their "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" columns since 1999. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Commentary, among other places. She is host of Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law and the Supreme Court. She was Newsweek’s legal columnist from 2008 until 2011. In 2018 Lithwick received the American Constitution Society’s Progressive Champion Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, Lithwick was the recipient of a Golden Pen Award from the Legal Writing Institute; the Virginia Bar Association’s award for Excellence in Legal Journalism; and the 2017 award for Outstanding Journalist in Law from the Burton Foundation for a distinguished career in journalism in law. Lithwick won a 2013 National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act. She has been twice awarded an Online Journalism Award for her legal commentary. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October, 2018. Lithwick has held visiting faculty positions at the University of Georgia Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, and the Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem. Ms. Lithwick has delivered the annual Constitution Day Lecture at the United States Library of Congress in 2012 and 2011. She has been a featured speaker on the main stage at the Chautauqua Institution. She speaks frequently on the subjects of criminal justice reform, reproductive freedom, religion in the courts. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has called her “spicy.” Lithwick was the first online journalist invited to be on the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press. She serves on the board of the Jefferson Center for Free Expression. Ms. Lithwick has testified before Congress about access to justice in the era of the Roberts Court. She has appeared on CNN, ABC, The Colbert Report, the Daily Show and is a frequent guest on The Rachel Maddow Show. Ms. Lithwick earned her BA in English from Yale University and her JD degree from Stanford University. She is currently working on a new book, Lady Justice, for Penguin Press. She is co-author of Me Versus Everybody (Workman Press, 2006) (with Brandt Goldstein) and of I Will Sing Life (Little, Brown 1992) (with Larry Berger). Her work has been featured in numerous anthologies including Jewish Jocks (2012), What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (2013), About What was Lost (2006); A Good Quarrel (2009); Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare (2009); and Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary (2008).
Professor Gordon Lloyd gave the attached address at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library as part of the commemoration of the 231st anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. Professor Lloyd shared his vast knowledge of and keen insights on the American Founding, particularly the Constitutional Convention. In addition to using TAH.org's Constitutional Convention online exhibit, created by Prof. Lloyd, he also used the famous Howard Chandler Christy painting depicting the signing of the Constitution as a focus for his talk. Professor Lloyd also referred to the "Issues Debated" page within the Federalist-Antifederalist Debates exhibit, where the primary issues over which the two sides debated are compared and the most essential documents linked, and the origins of the Bill of Rights. Questions and answers begin at the 40-minute mark, and the primary program, therefore, ends at that point. The Q&A portion did include some very interesting questions, with some making connections between history and contemporary politics. You can watch the video of the presentation, with additional opening remarks , as well. The post Constitution Day Lecture: “The Least Dangerous Branch” appeared first on Teaching American History.
Professor Gordon Lloyd gave the attached address at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library as part of the commemoration of the 231st anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. Professor Lloyd shared his vast knowledge of and keen insights on the American Founding, particularly the Constitutional Convention. In addition to using TAH.org's Constitutional Convention online exhibit, created by Prof. Lloyd, he also used the famous Howard Chandler Christy painting depicting the signing of the Constitution as a focus for his talk. Professor Lloyd also referred to the "Issues Debated" page within the Federalist-Antifederalist Debates exhibit, where the primary issues over which the two sides debated are compared and the most essential documents linked, and the origins of the Bill of Rights. Questions and answers begin at the 40-minute mark, and the primary program, therefore, ends at that point. The Q&A portion did include some very interesting questions, with some making connections between history and contemporary politics. You can watch the video of the presentation, with additional opening remarks , as well. The post Constitution Day Lecture: “The Least Dangerous Branch” appeared first on Teaching American History.
Whitworth Professor of Political Science Julia Stronks presents a Constitution Day Lecture, "LGBTQ Civil Rights and Religions Freedom: Bakers, Florists and Christian Universities."
About the lecture: The development of the rule of law and constitutional government-rule by representative lawmaking rather than executive decree or judicial edict-can be said to be the most significant and influential accomplishment of the long history of human liberty. The greatest political revolution in the United States since the establishment of the Constitution has been the shift of power away from the lawmaking institutions of republican government to an oligarchy of unelected experts. The future of the rule of law -- and self-government -- depends on the recovery of the Constitution. This lecture took place on September 16, 2016, and it was the annual Constitution Day Lecture at The Institute of World Politics. About the speaker: Matthew Spalding is Associate Vice President and Dean of Educational Programs for Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C. As such he oversees the operations of the Kirby Center and the various academic and educational programs of Hillsdale in the nation's capital. He is the best-selling author of We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future, which details America's core principles, shows how they have come under assault by modern progressive-liberalism and lays out a strategy to recover them. Spalding also is executive editor of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, a line-by-line analysis of each clause of the U.S. Constitution. His other books include A Sacred Union of Citizens: Washington's Farewell Address and the American Character; Patriot Sage: George Washington and the American Political Tradition; and The Founders' Almanac: A Practical Guide to the Notable Events, Greatest Leaders & Most Eloquent Words of the American Founding. Prior to joining Hillsdale, Dr. Spalding was Vice President of American Studies at The Heritage Foundation and founding director of its B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics. He continues at Heritage as the Henry Salvatori Visiting Fellow, and is also a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. He received his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in government from the Claremont Graduate School. In addition to teaching at Hillsdale, he has taught at George Mason University, the Catholic University of America and Claremont McKenna College.
Whitworth Professor of Political Science Kathryn Lee, Ph.D., presents the 2015 Constitution Day Lecture, "From Selma to Shelby County v. Holder: Voter Suppression in 21st-Century America." Lee is chair of the political science department at Whitworth and specializes in American politics. In spring 2015 she participated in the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March, in Selma, Ala.
Constitution Day Lecture by Breean Beggs