Constitution

Robert P. George speaks at the 10th-anniversary celebration for the Wheatley Institute. He speaks about the liberal democracy each of us can participate in and the constitutional rules that empower our society.

Among Toqueville’s most discerning insights is the civic tension arising from the largely incompatible aims of freedom and equality.

Wheatley Fellow shares lessons from the life of Union general Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair at the American Enterprise Institute and renowned political economist and demographer, offers a unique look into America's biggest demographic crisis yet: men without work. American men seem to be leaving the labor force in greater numbers than at any other time in the history of the world. The problem is uniquely American. Dr. Eberstadt explores why this is happening, what these men are doing instead, and what consequences it has on the American economy and culture.

Dr. Daniel Mark is an expert on family law and government from Villanova University. He speaks about how each of us have an responsibility to promote religious liberty and human rights.

“In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations, Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western…They tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection”. George Washington, Farewell Address.

The Constitution stands as the best one might expect of words that would guide a self-governing people.

This distinguished lecture in civic virtue is sponsored by the James Wilson Institute and the Wheatley Institute and presented by Dr. Daniel N. Robinson, a Fellow of the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and a former Senior Fellow at the Wheatley Institute.

Robert P. George is the McCormick Chair in Jurisprudence at Princeton University. In this lecture he discusses just and unjust laws, and political morality. George talks of humanity's ability to flourish or fail to flourish, what religion is, and faith's incapability to be coerced. He goes through and analyzes a quotation from Nostra Aetate, the Declaration of the Church to Non-Christian Religions.