Legal Studies lecture to focus on 'Reconstituting Our Republic'

1:30 p.m., March 4, 2015--Christopher Phillips, a Network Fellow at Harvard University’s Safra Center for Ethics, will speak at the University of Delaware about the future of America’s democratic republic, at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 12, in Room 103 Gore Hall.

The talk, titled “Rethinking Our Democracy, Reconstituting Our Republic,” is sponsored by UD’s Legal Studies program and is free and open to the public.

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In summarizing his topic, Phillips says that the founders of the United States “would be aghast at what we’ve done with and to their vision” of a democratic constitutional republic. He asks: “How can we get our democratic republic off life support and put it back on track?”

Most Americans today, he says, believe that they are no longer governed with their consent.

Phillips, who is also a senior fellow at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, previously designed and taught courses such as “Money and Democracy” at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Constitution Café: Jefferson’s Brew for a True Revolution and Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy.