Presented at CU Boulder on April 23, 2018

The Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy presents:

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 Caeser 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.

04/23/18
5:30 PM-7:30 PM
Hale Science 270
University of Colorado Boulder

Featuring:
James W. Caesar, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Harry F. Byrd, Professor of Politics (UVA)

Sponsored by:
Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy (CWCTP), The Herbst Program of Humanities