The Philadelphia Society’s Fall Regional Meeting
October 13-14, 2006
Sheraton Station Square Hotel – Pittsburgh, PA
The Contested Roots of American Liberty

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Friday

7:00 – 9:00   Dinner
George H. Nash, Historian and Author, Chairman, 6 minutes
Introductory remarks and Invocation, Charles Hull Wolfe, President, Plymouth Rock Foundation, 12 minutes
Bill Campbell, Secretary, Video Presentation, Portrait of Liberty
The Rt. Hon. William Hague, MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary, 35 minutes                   

Saturday

8:30 – 10:00  Christianity, Liberalism, and the Coming of the American Revolution
Paul Kengor, Chairman, Grove City College
Thomas Kidd, Baylor University, The Great Awakening, 17 minutes
Patrick Mullins, Saginaw Valley State University, Jonathan Mayhew, Speech Text, 20 minutes
Jeffry Morrison, Regent University, John Witherspoon, 15 minutes

10:15 – 11:45  American Independence: the View from Britain
Linda Raeder, Palm Beach Atlantic College, Chairman
Peter Stanlis, Rockford College, Edmund Burke, 28 minutes
Ronald Hamowy, University of Alberta, The View from Scotland

Luncheon
12:00 – 1:30 The Written Constitution as Fundamental Law
Gary L. Gregg, McConnell Center for Political Leadership, Chairman
C. Bradley Thompson, Executive Director, The Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism

2:30-4:30 Roundtable Discussion: The American Revolution: Fulfillment of or Departure from the British Legacy?
William Anthony Hay, Mississippi State University, Chairman
John Willson, Hillsdale College, Speech Text, 22 minutes
J.C.D. Clark, University of Kansas, Speech Text
Ellis Sandoz, Eric Voegelin Institute, Speech Text, 20 minutes
Michael Zuckert, University of Notre Dame               

Saturday Night Special Dinner Session - Duquesne Club
Master of Ceremonies: M. Stanton Evans, Education and Research Institute
Recognition of Distinguished Members: Peter Stanlis and Stephen Tonsor
Ian Crowe, Director, Edmund Burke Society of America, Speech Text on Peter Stanlis
Gregory Schneider, Emporia State University, Speech Text on Stephen Tonsor
Stephen Tonsor's Remarks, Speech Text
Dinner: M. Stanton Evans, Education and Research Institute, The Theme is Still Freedom