James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions

Bobst Hall, the home of the James Madison Program

The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions is a scholarly institute within the Department of Politics at Princeton University that is "dedicated to exploring enduring questions of American constitutional law and Western political thought."[1]

It was founded in 2002 and is headed by Princeton Professor Robert P. George.[2] According to Jane Mayer, writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the institute was founded as a "beachhead", one of the "conservative cells" established by the conservative John M. Olin Foundation at "the most influential schools in order to gain the greatest leverage". The Olin Foundation made $525,000 in grant money available; Robert George, who heads the institute, is "an outspoken social and religious conservative", according to Mayer.[3]

The Institute has been praised for its ability to enable Catholic and Evangelical Christians to work together.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://web.princeton.edu/sites/jmadison/welcome.html
  2. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/magazine/20george-t.html?pagewanted=1&sq=James%20Madison%20Program%20in%20American%20Ideals%20and%20Institutions&st=cse&scp=1
  3. ↑ Mayer, Jane (12 February 2016). "How Right-Wing Billionaires Infiltrated Higher Education". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  4. ↑ Faith in the halls of power: how evangelicals joined the American elite, D. Michael Lindsay, Oxford University Press US, 2007, p. 86

External links

Official website

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