Robert P. George | Tocqueville Lecture
Robert P George
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20 September 2018
20 August 2025
The 2018 Tocqueville Lecture, "Citizenship, Virtue, and the Constitution," sponsored by the Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and Public Life at the University of Notre Dame, took place at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 13 (Thursday) at the Forum at Jenkins and Nanovic Halls. "Citizenship, Virtue, and the Constitution: Protecting Liberty and Preventing Tyranny" was delivered by Robert P. George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. George has served as chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and as a presidential appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He has also served on the President's Council on Bioethics and as the U.S. member of UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology. George is also a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. His most recent book is "Conscience and Its Enemies" (ISI Books). George recently received a Leadership Award from the Heterodox Academy. Videography by Steve Toepp / Midwest Photographics
