ND Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Gov.
Notre Dame’s Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government seeks to cultivate thoughtful and educated citizens by supporting scholarship and education concerning the ideas and institutions of constitutional government. The Center aims to explore the fundamental principles and practices of a free society so that citizens and civic leaders are equipped to secure our God-given natural rights, exercise the responsibilities of self-government, and pursue the common good.
The center hosts events throughout the academic year. Many of our talks, lectures, and debates will be recorded and posted here.
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For more information, you can visit our website: constudies.nd.edu.
Josiah Ober | The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives | Notre Dame CCCG
The Impact of Constitutional Studies and the Tocqueville Fellows Program | Notre Dame CCCG
Daniel Mark | The Nature of Law | Notre Dame CCCG
Antón Barba-Kay | The Politics of AI and the Fate of Liberal Democracy | Notre Dame CCCG
Aurelian Craiutu | Who Is Afraid of Moderation? | Notre Dame CCCG
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya | The End of Free Speech is the End of Science | Notre Dame CCCG
Governor Ron DeSantis | Conservative Leadership on the Eve of America’s Semiquincentennial
Yoo and Litman | The Presidency, the 2024 Campaign, and the Future of American Democracy
Charles Kesler | Natural Right & Political Right in the American Founding | Notre Dame CCCG
John Witte | The Great Awakenings of American Religious Freedom | True Lecture Series
John Witte | Evaluating the Latest Supreme Court Teachings | True Lecture Series | Notre Dame CCCG
Bryan Garsten | A Liberalism of Refuge | Keynote Lecture: Notre Dame Grad. Con. in Political Theory
John Yoo | Trump's Legal Troubles
Carson Holloway | New York Times v. Sullivan and the Original Meaning of the First Amendment
Alexander Chula | Lessons for the West from a Small African Country
Yorum Hazony | Judaism and Free Speech on Campus Post-October 7, 2023
Melvin Rogers | On James Baldwin: History, Responsibility, and Atonement
Panel | Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit
Michael Pompeo | Religious Liberty, Courage, and the Necessity of Leadership
Kate Hardiman Rhodes '17 | Unshackled: Freeing America's K-12 Education System
Panel | The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial and Maritime Disputes | Notre Dame CCCG
Judge Amul Thapar | Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him
Dr. Harvey Mansfield | How to Read Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Dr. Carl Trueman | Strange New World
Ben and Jenna Storey | Liberal Education and the Restless Soul
Michael Anton and Jim Otteson | Debate: "How Moral are Markets?"
Judge Kyle Duncan | Free Speech and Legal Education in Our Liberal Democracy
Jim Stoner | Catholicism and Constitutionalism: An American Perspective
Michael Zuckert | Thinkin' About Lincoln
Sen. Tim Scott | America: A Redemption Story