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SSF Constitution Day Virtual Lecture

America’s Amoral Constitution

Location

Online

Date & Time

September 17, 2020, 12:00 pm1:30 pm

Description

“America’s Amoral Constitution”


Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.

By design, the U.S. Constitution does not evaluate whether a lawful choice is morally right or wrong; it evaluates only whether the choice satisfies the procedures the Constitution requires for it to have been made. These fiercely democratic foundations serve as both the font of the Constitution’s popular legitimacy and more ominously also the greatest threat to the liberal democratic principles that today define the Constitution in its common perception at home and abroad. 

This event is free and open to the public, and will be recorded. Following the event, the recording will be available with closed captioning on CS3's YouTube channel.   

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Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Center for Democracy and Civic Life

Photo by Isaac Rodriguez.