A Citizen's Constitutional Workshop, Jesse Helms Center, April 9

9:30 am - 3:30 pm

Wingate, NC

Register online for this event!

Do you know how to protect our country's founding values?  Are you concerned about the preservation of the Constitution and what it means for our freedoms?  

A Citizen's Constitutional Workshop, conducted on Saturday, April 9 by the North Carolina History Project (a project of the John Locke Foundation) and hosted by the Jesse Helms Center Foundation and the Union County Patriots, will provide intellectual tools and insight for Patriots to defend critical constitutional principles.  

Presenters will include: 

• Dr. Troy Kickler, founding Director of the North Carolina History Project and Adjunct Professor of United States History at N.C. State University.
• Dr. Michael Sanera, Director of Research and Local Government Studies at the Locke Foundation and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at N.C. State University.

This event will be a workshop with a lunch and pre-registration is strongly suggested.  Tickets can be purchased at the John Locke Foundation's website here.

Event overview:

This workshop provides today's Patriots with the intellectual tools to fight for the restoration of the original intent of the U.S. Constitution, which was to promote a limited government based on the rule of law. It explains what the framers meant by phrases such as the "general welfare," "necessary and proper" and other clauses that are often used to justify an ever more powerful federal government. In addition we explore the North Carolina ratification debates and reveal how the Tar Heel State ensured that the Bill of Rights was added. By examining the important role of the states in the nation's beginning and providing constitutional commentary based on the founders' words, this workshop is a must for Americans interested in preserving the United States and a federal form of government.

What the experts are saying about A Citizen's Consitutional Workshop:

"In this time of renewed interest in the Constitution, it is meet that we look back not just on the text, but on the agreement itself. That agreement was hammered out in the state conventions, in crowded rooms full of arguments and clever attempts to turn portions of the agreement to the advantage of one group or another. "A Citizens' Constitutional Workshop" could not be more important, or more timely. That's why NC citizens should attend these workshops. They will remind us that the power of the Constitution is not what it says, but what it did, stitching together a solid national fabric from a patchwork quilt of diverse and opposing interests. We became a nation not when the Constitution was written, but rather when it was ratified."
*Michael C. Munger
Director: Philosophy, Politics and Economics- Duke University.

"The John Locke Foundation's workshop on the Constitution will provide a solid foundation for anyone interested in understanding the Founders' experiment in republican government. By taking a federal perspective upon the original understanding, students will learn how the Revolution was fulfilled by the Constitution -- and gain insight into the divergence between the world of James Madison, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson and the USA of today."
*Kevin Gutzman
History Professor, Western Connecticut State University.
Author of Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution and Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush. 

REGISTER ONLINE FOR A CITIZEN'S CONSTITUTIONAL WORKSHOP