James Madison: Founder of the American Founding

This event will be an account of the revival of the idea of founding and founders that came, via Madison, in 1787-8, and that stood in contrast to British schools of thought at the time, namely compact theory and organicism. He will try to revive the idea that the founders and the founding have had a great impact on American political life.  

James Ceaser is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including Presidential Selection (Princeton University Press, 1979), Reconstructing America (Yale University Press, 1997), and Nature and History in American Political Development (Harvard University Press, 2006) ), and Designing a Polity (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010). He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, Princeton University, Oxford University, the University of Basel, and the University of Bordeaux. He is a frequent contributor to the popular press, most recently the Weekly Standard and the National Review.

Location:

CU Boulder | Hale Sciences 270 
1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder, CO 80309

FREE Parking: 

-After 5 pm there is free parking along Grandview Avenue!

-Grandview Avenue is near the Starbucks on Broadway. The Starbucks address is 1402 Broadway, Boulder CO. 

-Before the Starbucks, at the cross section take a right onto Grandview Avenue. The entire street is free parking after 5 pm.

PAID Parking: 

-Available on University Avenue

Monday, April 23, 2018 at 5:30pm

Hale Science, 270
1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder, CO 80309

Event Type

Lecture/Presentation

Audience

Students, Faculty, General Public, Staff

College, School & Unit

Arts & Sciences

Tags

Law, Politics

Cost

Free

Group
Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization
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