Welcome all of you attending this symposium in person. As well as our audience on cspan to this Second Annual symposium on constitutional issues. This year, we examine the 15th amendment and invite a conversation as our Program States on suffrage in light of the hopes and realities of american identity and governance. In many ways, this university is the ideal venue for such a conversation. Envisioned as a Great National episcopal institution by a group of founding bishops in the 1850s, the university of the south by 1860 possessed more than 6,000 acres of land on the Cumberland Plateau in tennessee. It had an endowment half the size of harvards. I often think with my regents about what that would mean for us today. We wouldnt be lamenting an 8 return. And saw itself, in that vision, with colleges of different sizes, schools of law and medicine and business and theology. Saw itself indeed as americas first truly comprehensive private university a half generation ahead of Johns Hopkins
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We the next couple of hours, will hear from law professors, First Amendment scholars and authors, hosted by the National Constitution center. Gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center on the road. [applause] i am jeffrey rosen, president of the National Constitution center in philadelphia. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis and the centerpiece of our aspiring Educational Mission is a partnership withmtwo great lawyers with to dubya a great lawyers associations. [applause] the National Constitution center has brought these two great organizations together to sponsor a series of constitutional debates across america. This is our third time here at the be a full chicago cultural center, and we have also hosted debates from washington, d. C. Ted dallas to san francisco, educating and washington, d. C. , ted dallas to san francisco, educating at to francisco