Description: The first 13 of the AEI Walter Berns Constitution Day Lectures are now collected in one volume. Given by distinguished scholars, judges, and political figures--and edited by AEI Senior Fellow Gary J. Schmitt--the lectures cover a host of topics providing a deeper understanding of the US constitutional order and its underlying principles. The volume also reissues a 2011 panel discussion by Christopher DeMuth, Leon R. Kass, and Jeremy A. Rabkin honoring longtime AEI colleague Walter Berns's still relevant and important scholarship on the Constitution and the American republic.
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Leon R. Kass has served as dean of the faculty at Shalem College in Jerusalem since 2021 and is professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought. After serving as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005, he joined AEI as the Hertog Fellow in Social Thought and is currently a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute. His scholarship has ranged widely, involving issues in biomedical ethics, civic and liberal education, and biblical exegesis. His latest book is Founding God's Nation: Reading Exodus (2021). At the time of his Constitution Day remarks, Dr. Kass held AEI's Madden-Jewett Chair.