With Andrew Porwancher, School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University

Sponsored by the Jack Miller Center.

Andrew Porwancher, Professor, School of Civic & Economic Thought & Leadership at Arizona State University, delivered the Great Hearts Institute’s Inaugural Constitution Day Address, “The Constitution: Hidden Truths and Enduring Myths”, supported by a Constitution Day Grant from the Jack Miller Center.

Professor Porwancher discussed the history behind the Constitution, which he contends, “is not merely academic. It shapes our lives and liberties today. But popular understandings of the Constitution often neglect the historical record. What did the framers really mean by the Establishment Clause? What little-known constitutional clause did even more than the First Amendment to shape religious liberty in America? What can the peculiar origins of the Second Amendment teach us about gun rights? This lecture explores historical evidence that can help us refine constitutional debates as old as the republic itself.”