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Built for This: Debate, Dialogue, and the Constitution 

Celebrate Constitution Day with the Bill of Rights Institute on September 17, 2024, from 11-2 PM ET

Constitution Day Live! is a hybrid streaming program that features direct live engagement with educators and students coupled with pre-recorded segments and published in-class materials to promote the study of the Constitution and Constitutional issues on Constitution Day.

This Year's Theme will follow how the Constitution facilitates the process of disagreement, debate, and compromise!

Constitution Day Live will include segments from:

  • Yuval Levin
  • Eric Meyer
  • BRI Student Fellows
  • and other special guests!

Questions to be explored:

  • What structures and institutions helped ensure the government would be stable, trusted, and respect the rights of individuals?
  • How do these institutions continue to function today? How are they maintained?
 

2024 Constitution Day Resources

Download the viewing guides in advance of Constitution Day.

Video

Using the Constitution to Help Unify Americans with Yuval Levin | BRI Scholar Talks

24 Min

How can the Constitution help unify Americans? In this episode of Scholar Talks, Yuval Levin, Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, joins BRI Senior Fellow Tony Williams to discuss his new book, American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—And Could Again. This episode explores how the Constitution can help unify Americans, the roles of federalism and localism, the importance of Congress, the contributions of the president and Supreme Court, and how stronger political parties and elections can promote unity.