Program Description
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Revisiting the Founding Era - Keynote with Akhil Amar
In this keynote to our series of public programs, Revisiting the Founding Era, constitutional scholar Akhil Amar, author and Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, describes the dynamic nature of the 1787 constitutional convention, provides short profiles of its key players and relationships, and outlines the issues that dominated their arguments. Amar shows us how the preoccupations of the new republic mirror the preoccupations of our own time and how the brilliance of the Founding Fathers led to the creation of one of the greatest and most enduring documents in human history.
This program is part of Revisiting the Founding Era, a three-year national initiative of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presented in partnership with the American Library Association and the National Constitution Center, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This program is co-sponsored by the Library, Keeler Tavern Museum and History Center, Ridgefield Historical Association, Drum Hill Chapter of the DAR, Books on the Common, and the Connecticut Project for the Constitution.
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