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9:00 AM - 15th Annual Academic Festival

10:00 AM - Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions Information Table

5:00 PM - Burlington, VT happy hour

7:00 PM - 5/01 Boston

7:00 PM - 5/01 Chicago

7:00 PM - 5/01 New York City

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15th Annual Academic Festival
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All events for May 17, 2013

10:00 AM - Periclean Scholar Awards Ceremony & Honors Forum Senior Recognition

12:30 PM - Senior Varsity Athlete Recognition Luncheon

2:00 PM - Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony

3:30 PM - Class of 2013 Parents Fund Ceremony

4:30 PM - President's Reception

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Periclean Scholar Awards Ceremony & Honors Forum Senior Recognition
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Constitutional Reverence or Democratic Faith?

Location: Scribner Library: Pohndorff Room

Date: 10/14/2010

Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Speaker: Carl Scott

Description:
In Federalist #49, James Madison argued that the relative difficulty of amending the U.S. Constitution would strengthen America's republican government, as it would encourage a natural reverence for the Constitution over the long run. Herbert Croly, a leading progressive thinker, attacked this sort of reverence in his 1912 book Progressive Democracy, arguing that it had led Americans to bow before a veritable "monarchy of the Word." Reverence for the Constitution, he argued, not only blocked needed reforms, but hindered a questing faith in democracy more natural to the American spirit. Professor Scott's talk will revisit this fundamental debate about the proper "political creed" for America with a view to better understand 1) our Constitution and 2) how attitudes toward it continue to shape our present political divisions.

Sponsor:
Government Department

Contact:
Barbara McDonough
518.580-5240

Attendance Info: Open to all

Tags: constitution federalist papers madison

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