Cedar Lane’s Kiplinger Lecture: An Ethical Reading of the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Future of American Democracy

Cedar Lane 2021 Kiplinger Lecture: An Ethical Reading of the Declaration, the Constitution, 

and the Future of American Democracy

November 13, 2021

Are We the People still the essence of our democracy? Are all Americans equal before the law, and the ballot box? Can we sustain our unique form of government in these troubling times?

Please join us on Saturday, November 13th, at 7:30 p.m., to be enlightened and stirred to action by Rep. Jamie Raskin, lawyer, constitutional scholar, and professor emeritus at American University as well as an influential Member of Congress representing Maryland’s 8th District. Rep. Raskin led the second impeachment trial of former President Trump and serves on the select committee investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

A graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School, Rep. Raskin began his political career as a three-term Maryland State Senator, where, as majority whip, he built coalitions to pass landmark legislation. He is the bestselling author of Overruling Democracy: the Supreme Court versus the American People and We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and about America’s Students. According to newspaper accounts in 2015, the then congressional candidate announced, “My ambition is not to be in the political center; it is to be in the moral center.”

This address is another of Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church’s Kiplinger Lectures on Ethics in American Society. The series honors the memory of church pioneer and benefactor Willard M. Kiplinger, whose popular Kiplinger Letter financial publications make government and economic news “understandable.” In 2001 his son Austin created a Kiplinger Foundation endowment to fund ethically based lectures at Cedar Lane on issues that have ranged from educational equity to the death penalty, use of military force to “revolutionary” love.  

Join us on Saturday, November 13th at 7:30 pm for a livestream of Rep. Raskin’s reflections on the historic challenges facing our democracy. Please save the date and save this link!