American Covenant
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT
Catholic Information Center
1501 K Street NW
Washington,
DC
20005
United States
Co-sponsored with:
The Center on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT)
Description
On October 22nd at 6:00 PM EDT, join the CIC and The Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) for our upcoming panel discussion based upon Yuval Levin’s new book, American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again. We are pleased to welcome our speakers:
- Yuval Levin – Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies, AEI
- Jack Landman Goldsmith – Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law
- William Kelley – Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law
- J. Joel Alicea – Director of CIT and Associate Professor of Law, The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law
Dr. Levin’s book will be available for purchase at the CIC and is available for online purchase as well.
The event will be offered both in-person and virtually through YouTube. Please RSVP today!
About Dr. Levin’s book:
Common ground is hard to find in today’s politics. In a society teeming with irreconcilable political perspectives, many people have grown frustrated under a system of government that constantly demands compromise. More and more on both the right and the left have come to blame the Constitution for the resulting discord. But the Constitution is not the problem we face; it is the solution.
Blending engaging history with lucid analysis, conservative scholar Yuval Levin’s American Covenant recovers the Constitution’s true genius and reveals how it charts a path to repairing America’s fault lines. Uncovering the framers’ sophisticated grasp of political division, Levin showcases the Constitution’s exceptional power to facilitate constructive disagreement, negotiate resolutions to disputes, and forge unity in a fractured society. Clear-eyed about the ways that contemporary politics have malfunctioned, Levin also offers practical solutions for reforming those aspects of the constitutional order that have gone awry.
Hopeful, insightful, and rooted in the best of our political tradition, American Covenant celebrates the Constitution’s remarkable power to bind together a diverse society, reassuring us that a less divided future is within our grasp.
October 22nd Schedule:
- 6:00 pm: Panel discussion (This portion will be livestreamed through YouTube.)
- 7:00 pm: Light happy (half) hour
- 7:30 pm: Conclusion
This program is co-sponsored by The Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) promotes scholarship that explores the relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition for American constitutionalism. That tradition is deep and rich, including philosophical and theological accounts of law and politics by such figures as St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. Although CIT’s primary focus is on theories of constitutional law, such as originalism, its ambit is broad and covers the relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition for constitutional history, doctrine, and other fields of study. CIT carries out its mission through such activities as guest lectures, conferences, courses offered through the Law School, a program on the Catholic intellectual tradition for young lawyers in the D.C. area (see the “Aquinas Fellowship” page), and a program of special events and offerings for students at The Catholic University of America (see the “Ex Corde Fellowship” page).
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About the Speakers
J. Joel Alicea is an Associate Professor of Law at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America, and the Director of the Law School’s Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.
William K. Kelley teaches constitutional law and administrative law at the University of Notre Dame Law School, and focuses on public law issues in his scholarship.
Jack Landman Goldsmith is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, a non-resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and co-founder of Lawfare. He teaches and writes about presidential power, national security law, federal courts, conflict of laws, international law, and internet law.
Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founder and editor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor at The New Atlantis, a contributing editor at National Review, and a contributing opinion writer at New York Times.
