The Philadelphia Society

Philadelphia National Meeting

"The Religious Roots of Liberty"

April 25-27, 1997

M. Stanton Evans, National Journalism Center, Chairman

Michael Novak, American Enterprise Institute, "A Free and Virtuous Society"

Limited Government Under Law

Robert Weissberg, Chairman

Jeffrey Sikkenga, Ashland University, "The Birth of Freedom"

John G. West, Jr., Discovery Institute, "Jerusalem and the Law"

David Hall, The Kuyper Institute, "Reformation and Resistance"

Luncheon

T. Kenneth Cribb, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Chairman

Father Stanley Jaki, Seton Hall University, "The Biblical Basis of Western Science"

From Covenant to Constitution

James McClellan, Liberty Fund, Inc., Chairman

William C. Dennis, Liberty Fund, Inc., "The Puritan Achievement"

Ellis Sandoz, Eric Voegelin Institute, "The Founders and the Higher Law"

(Real Audio Excerpt of Ellis Sandoz on Algernon Sidney)

For Hollis Liberty Prints of many Classical Republicans, Whigs, and even a few Tories see the Exhibition curated by the Secretary.

John Baker, Louisiana State University Law School, "The Meaning of the First Amendment"

Of Faith and Freedom

Leonard Liggio, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Chairman

Alejandro A. Chafuen, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, "The Origins of Market Economics"

Barbara von der Heydt, The Acton Institute, "Why the Walls Came Down"

Ralph E. Ancil, Wilhelm Roepke Institute, "Morality and Markets"

Saturday Optional Dinner

Michelle Easton, President, Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute,

"Who Controls the Schools: Parents or the Federal Village?"

Sunday Breakfast

Darwin Reconsidered

M. Stanton Evans, National Journalism Center, Chairman

Michael Behe, Lehigh University, "Evidence for Intelligent Design from Biochemistry"

Jane Shaw Stroup, Political Economy Research Center