Holy Cross to Hold Lecture, Q&A for Constitution Day

The College of the Holy Cross will celebrate Constitution Day with a lecture by Kenneth Kersch, professor of political science at Boston College. The lecture, called “I Alone Can Fix It; Donald Trump and the Constitutional Derangement of the Contemporary Republican Party,” will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 4 p.m. at Rehm Library, and is free and open to the public.

Kersch holds additional appointments in the Boston College history department and Boston College Law School, and has been published widely in the areas of constitutional development, public law and the courts, and American political thought. His next book, which he is currently completing, is called “Conservatives and the Constitution: From Brown to Reagan” (Cambridge University Press).

In 2004, Congress passed legislation requiring that every institution of higher education receiving federal funds hold an educational program on the Constitution in observance of Constitution Day, which is officially observed on September 17, the day delegates to the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in 1787 to sign the completed Constitution.

The program is sponsored by the College’s political science department, the Charles Carroll Program, and the Jack Miller Center (JMC), a non-partisan, Philadelphia-based non-profit dedicated to reinvigorating education on the U.S. Constitution. JMC has provided matching funds to nearly 150 of the most outstanding programs on college campuses across the country exploring the central role of the Constitution to understanding the American experience, past and present.