John Dickinson Forum: Civic Virtues and the Constitution

George Fox University

John Dickinson Forum: “Civic Virtues and the Constitution: The Founders’ Plan to Protect Liberty and Prevent Tyranny”

 

The John Dickinson Forum, a JMC partner program, and the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University will be hosting JMC fellow Robert P. George for a lecture on civic virtues and their relation to the Constitution. George will speak on the plan that the Founders integrated into the Constitution to prevent tyranny and protect American liberty.

Thursday, March 14, 2019 • 7:30 PM
Bauman Auditorium • George Fox University

Free and open to the public

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Robert P. GeorgeRobert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is also a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and as a presidential appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. George has served on the President’s Council on Bioethics and as the U.S. member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology. He was a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. He is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal and the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Baylor University has named its new Washington, D.C.-based program the “Robert P. George Initiative in Faith, Ethics, and Public Policy.” His most recent book is Conscience and Its Enemies (ISI Books, 2013). Professor George is a JMC fellow.

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The mission of the John Dickinson Forum for the Study of America’s Founding Principles, a JMC partner program, is to promote thoughtful study, discussion, and debate about America’s founding principles. It hopes to encourage conversations about whether or how these principles are relevant today. The Forum supports a variety of activities including lectures, book/current event discussion groups, and debates. It also partners with other institutions to make programming available to students at other schools and to the general public throughout the Pacific Northwest.

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This event is supported by Jack Miller Center’s Pacific Northwest Initiative: Advancing Education in America’s Founding Principles and History. Thanks to the generous grant from MJ Murdock Charitable Trust, JMC is working with faculty to organize exciting campus events in the region. The Initiative also provides programs, conferences and other opportunities for professors in the PNW—all to help them make a difference in the education of their students.

 


 

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