Keynote: “Hamilton v, Jefferson: On History, Freedom, and Republican Government”

Keynote Address AHI's Eleventh Annual Carl B. Menges Colloquium: “Hamilton, Jefferson, and the Judges: Courts in the American Republic," November 15 at Montalto, Monticello, Virginia. Introduction by Dr. Andrew O’Shaughnessy of Annette Gordon-Reed, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Harvard Law School. Each academic year the AHI holds as the pièce de résistance of its programming a major colloquium devoted to an annual theme. In years past, the AHI has sponsored colloquia devoted to such themes as the meaning of freedom, property rights, limited government, the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and Samuel Huntington’s clash-of-civilizations thesis.