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Start to finish, it’s about a half-hour read, comprising 50 pages, more or less. But its brevity aside, it is the single most significant written work in the nation’s history, setting forth what The Center for Legislative Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration calls “Six Big Ideas” of our American life—limited government, republicanism, checks and balances, federalism, separation of powers, and popular sovereignty. This most significant document in America has been parsed, critiqued, and construed using originalist, textualist, and living constitutionalist perspectives. Enigmatically both durable and fragile, our U.S. Constitution is the subject of a debate that never ends.

Kimberly Wehle teaches our legal community how—and why—lawyers should read the document that enshrines and protects the values of our nation. The occasion for Professor Wehle’s keynote address is MCLE’s annual Richard S. Milstein Lecture. MCLE’s board of trustees and its entire staff join Mr. Milstein in inviting you to attend.

Here’s why you should not miss this lecture:

Professor Wehle cuts through the interpreters’ debates and the partisan discourse to report what the text says and explain what it means. With her clear, common-sense style, she tells us why every American—and especially, every lawyer and every jurist in America—should heed the “red flags” warning us that our Constitution is currently being tested in unprecedented ways. She alerts us as to how the Constitution is up against increasingly erosive forces in today’s American life—urgent forces threatening democracy in ways both subtle and pernicious.

About the Milstein Lecture Series

The Richard S. Milstein Lecture Series is made possible through the generosity of MCLE’s founding director, Richard S. Milstein, Esq., who values the importance of scholarly dialog on the present and future life of the law in Massachusetts.

Prior speakers for the lecture series include Professor Akhil Reed Amar of Yale University, Neal Katyal of Georgetown University Law Center and Hogan Lovells, Adam Liptak of The New York Times; Ronald Suskind of Harvard Law School, Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio, and John Weaver of McLane Middleton.

To help MCLE continue to attract top national thought leaders and sustain this free series, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to the Richard S. Milstein Lecture Series Fund at www.mcle.org/give/fund/bio/milsteinlecture.

*Please note that CLE credit is not available for this program.*

Agenda & Materials

• How To Read the Constitution - And Why Every Lawyer Needs To

  Kimberly Wehle, Professor, University of Baltimore , Baltimore
  

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