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2011 Spring
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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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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2010 Fall
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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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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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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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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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
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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