Posts Tagged American Idea
When Will We Ever Learn?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on August 26th, 2010
There was an anti-war song from the sixties that I always loved, titled “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” The refrain was “oh, when will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?” I’ve thought about that refrain a lot lately, as America has increasingly retreated into one of the ugliest nativist episodes in a [...]
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Can We Rescue Civic Literacy?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Constitution on September 23rd, 2009
My research focuses on something I call “Constitutional Culture.” The investigation of “constitutional culture” is considerably broader than legal analysis; it focuses upon the reciprocal relationship between our laws and legal norms and the broader culture within which those norms must be understood. In other words, I study how constitutional values operate within a very [...]
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