SEPTEMBER
Thursday, September 16, 2010
The Constitution in a Time of War: The Trial of Minoru Yasui
The Honorable Denny Chin, United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit
Princeton University Constitution Day Lecture
Cosponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Program in American Studies, the Center for African American Studies, the Department of English, and the Program in Law and Public Affairs
4:30 p.m., McCosh Hall 10
More Info: http://www.princeton.edu/ams/events/

Friday, September 17, 2010
Lincoln and Obama: Two Visions of Constitutional Union
Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science,
Chair of the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism, University of Pennsylvania
James Madison Program Annual Constitution Day Lecture
Cosponsored by the Program in American Studies and the Bouton Law Lecture Fund
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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OCTOBER
Friday, October 8, 2010
A Panel Discussion of Donald L. Drakeman’s
Church, State, and Original Intent (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Panelists: Donald L. Drakeman *88, Author; Chairman of James Madison Program Advisory Council; Kent Greenawalt, University Professor, Columbia Law School; Michael Stokes Paulsen, Distinguished University Chair, Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas; V. Phillip Muñoz, Tocqueville Associate Professor of Religion & Public Life, University of Notre Dame. Moderator: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Founding Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University
Cosponsored by the Bouton Law Lecture Fund
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Shakespeare’s Patriotic Resistance
Lecture One: A Truer and Fairer Patriotism
John M. Finnis, Biolchini Family Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame; Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy, University of Oxford
The Charles E. Test, M.D., Distinguished Lectures
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Friday-Saturday, October 15-16, 2010
Open Hearts, Open Minds, and Fair Minded Words:
A Conference on Life and Choice in the Abortion Debate
Sponsored by the University Center for Human Values; cosponsored by James Madison Program; Department of Religion; Center for the Study of Religion; Fordham University Department of Theology; University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics; Bioethics International
McCosh Hall 50, See Program for Panel Times - REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Why Is American Politics So Polarized?
James Q. Wilson, Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University; Visiting Lecturer, Boston College and Senior Fellow in the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College; Former President of the American Political Science Association; and Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Annual Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture on America's Founding Principles
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Shakespeare’s Patriotic Resistance
Lecture Two: King Lear and the Sense of Epoch
John M. Finnis, Biolchini Family Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame; Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy, University of Oxford
The Charles E. Test, M.D., Distinguished Lectures
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Shakespeare’s Patriotic Resistance
Lecture Three: Objections Confronted
John M. Finnis, Biolchini Family Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame; Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy, University of Oxford
The Charles E. Test, M.D., Distinguished Lectures
8:00 p.m., Lewis Library 138
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NOVEMBER
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Human Flourishing, the Economy, and Monetary Reform -  A Conference (Day 1 of 2)
Cosponsored by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, Princeton University; and the Program in Ethics, Culture, and Economic Development, Witherspoon Institute
See Program for Session Times, Carl Fields Center, All Purpose Room
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Open Field Politics: 2010 and Beyond
Michael Barone, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Fox News Contributor
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
7:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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DECEMBER
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Soft Power and the Pope — The Catholic Church Confronts the Modern World, 1978-2005
George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow, William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Sponsored by the Aquinas Institute (Catholic Chaplaincy) at Princeton University; cosponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
7:30 p.m., Robertson Hall, Bowl 2
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Human Flourishing, the Economy, and Monetary Reform -  A Conference (Day 2 of 2)
Cosponsored by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, Princeton University; and the Program in Ethics, Culture, and Economic Development, Witherspoon Institute
See Program for Session Times, Carl Fields Center, All Purpose Room
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Can Someone from the Class of 1771 Save the Nation from Someone from the Class of 1879?
George F. Will *68, Columnist, Washington Post; Author; Princeton University Trustee
James Madison Program 10th Anniversary Celebration Lecture
4:30 p.m., Friend Center 101
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Public Events (Spring 2011)

FEBRUARY
Monday, February 7, 2011
Cicero and Burke on Politics as a Vocation
Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
Author of A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse
Sponsored by the Aquinas Institute and cosponsored by the James Madison Program
4:30 p.m., Senate Chamber of Whig Hall
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Whatever Happened to Freedom of Association?
Michael W. McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Former Judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Co-author of two casebooks, The Constitution of the United States: Text, Structure, History, and Precedent (2010) and Religion and the Constitution (2006)
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture in Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Cosponsored by the Bouton Law Lecture Fund
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
How American Government Has Grown, and How it Might — Possibly — Stop Growing
William Voegeli, Senior Editor of the Claremont Review of Books
Author of Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State (2010)
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Friday, February 25, 2011
Thomas Jefferson: Thinking Like a Lawyer
David Konig, Professor of History and Professor of Law at Washington University, St. Louis
Presented by the Colonial Americas Workshop and sponsored by the Program in American Studies, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, the Program in Law and Public Affairs, and the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
12:00 p.m., Dickinson Hall 210 and 4:30 p.m., Dickinson Hall 211
More Info: http://www.princeton.edu/cch/events/workshops/caw/

Saturday, February 26, 2011
Lessons from Lincoln ― An Alumni Day Panel Discussion
Panelists: James M. McPherson, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History, Emeritus, Princeton University; Allen C. Geulzo, 2010-11 Garwood Teaching Fellow, Department of Politics, Princeton University, Professor of History and Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College
Moderator: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
9:00 a.m., Lewis Library 120
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Postwar Pluralism, Modern Psychology, and the Rise of Civil Rights
Alan Petigny,  2010-11 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow; Associate Professor of History, University of Florida
Author of The Permissive Society: America, 1941-1965 (2009)
James Madison Program Annual Black History Month Event
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Cosponsored by the Program in American Studies
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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MARCH
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Book Panel Discussion of the Theology of David Novak
Panelists: Matthew Levering, Professor of Theology, University of Dayton, and author of Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Life of Wisdom: Engagements with the Theology of David Novak; David Novak, J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies, University of Toronto; Eric Gregory, Professor of Religion, Princeton University
Cosponsored by the Tikvah Project on Jewish Thought
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
The Conservative Case Against the Constitution
Patrick Deneen, Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Chair, Associate Professor of Government; Director, Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy, Georgetown University
Author of The Odyssey of Political Theory: The Politics of Departure and Return (2000), and Democratic Faith (2005)
Cosponsored by the Bouton Law Lecture Fund
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
A Religious View of the Foundations of International Law
Lecture One: The Crisis of International Law and the Strictures of Public Reason
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, New York University Law School
Author of Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs: Philosophy for the White House (2010), God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke's Political Thought (2002), and Law and Disagreement (2001)
The Charles E. Test, M.D. Distinguished Lectures
Cosponsored by the Bouton Law Lecture Fund
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Friday, March 25, 2011
Slavery and Southern History: The Work of Eugene Genovese
A One-Day Conference
Cosponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization and Center for African American Studies, Princeton University
See Program for Session Times, Aaron Burr 219
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
The 4th Annual Undergraduate Scholars Conference on the American Polity
Hosted by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and cosponsored by Georgetown University’s Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy and Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy
See Program for Session Times, Prospect House Library
Program

Monday, March 28, 2011
A Religious View of the Foundations of International Law
Lecture Two: Sovereigns, Borders, and Responsibility for the World
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, New York University Law School
Author of Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs: Philosophy for the White House (2010), God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke's Political Thought (2002), and Law and Disagreement (2001)
The Charles E. Test, M.D. Distinguished Lectures
Cosponsored by the Bouton Law Lecture Fund
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
A Religious View of the Foundations of International Law
Lecture Three: The Sources of Order: Why Natural Law is not Enough
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, New York University Law School
Author of Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs: Philosophy for the White House (2010), God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke's Political Thought (2002), and Law and Disagreement (2001)
The Charles E. Test, M.D. Distinguished Lectures
Cosponsored by the Bouton Law Lecture Fund
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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APRIL
Monday, April 4, 2011
Constitutional Decay and the Politics of Deference
Jeffrey Tulis, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Author of The Rhetorical Presidency, and coeditor and coauthor of The Limits of Constitutional Democracy, The Presidency in the Constitutional Order, and The Constitutional Presidency
The 10th Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Ideals and Institutions
Cosponsored by the Program in Law and Public Affairs and the Bouton Law Lecture Fund
7:30 p.m., Lewis Library 138
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Monday, April 11, 2011
The Family in the Liberal Order
Scott Yenor, Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science; Director, American Founding Initiative, Boise State University
Author of Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought (2011)
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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MAY
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The Killing of Bin Laden: What Does It Mean for America and the World?
A Panel Discussion Moderated by Robert P. George
Jennifer Bryson, Director of the Research Project on Islam and Civil Society, Witherspoon Institute; Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, Princeton University; Michael A. Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University; and Darren M. Staloff, Professor of Early American History, The City College of New York, City University of New York
Sponsored by the James Madison Program Undergraduate Fellows Forum
4:30 p.m., Dodds Auditorium
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
The Muslim Case for Religious Freedom
Abdullah Saeed, Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies; Director, National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Author of Freedom of Religion, Apostasy and Islam and The Qur'an: An Introduction
Cosponsored by the Muslim Life Program in the Office of Religious Life at Princeton University
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Monday–Tuesday, May 16-17, 2011
Law, Liberty, and Virtue
A Two-Day Conference
Hosted by the James Madison Program and cosponsored by the Association for the Study of Free Institutions, University of Nebraska at Omaha, and the Bouton Law Lecture Fund
See Program for Session Times, Lewis Library 120
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Friday, May 27, 2011
More God, Less Crime: A Leap of Faith or Matter of Fact? - Reunions 2011 Panel Discussion
Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program at Princeton University; with Byron R. Johnson, Distinguished
Professor of the Social Sciences and Director of the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University, and author of More God, Less Crime: Why Faith Matters and How It Could Matter
More; John J. DiIulio, Jr., Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania; Beverly Frazier, Assistant Professor in the Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice; and Reverend Eugene F. Rivers, Pastor of the Azusa Christian Community in Dorchester Massachusetts
Annual James Madison Program Reunions 2011 Event
2:00 p.m., Lewis Library 138
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