ACS Program Guides
ACS creates a program guide focusing on a different key issue every year to assist chapter leaders in planning events in these areas.
Authoritarian Threats to Securing a Multiracial Democracy
American democracy is confronting a moment of truth, in which the danger of succumbing to autocracy must be met with efforts to forge a genuinely multiracial democracy. Over the past decade and a half, the U.S. has experienced a rise and mainstreaming of white nationalism. At the federal level, these forces have been folded into a broader effort to entrench counter-majoritarian rule by exploiting antidemocratic features within the design of the judiciary, the electoral college, the U.S. Senate, and decennial redistricting.
Read MoreDemocracy’s Moment of Truth
American democracy is confronting a moment of truth, in which the danger of succumbing to autocracy must be met with efforts to forge a genuinely multiracial democracy. Over the past decade and a half, the U.S. has experienced a rise and mainstreaming of white nationalism. At the federal level, these forces have been folded into a broader effort to entrench counter-majoritarian rule by exploiting antidemocratic features within the design of the judiciary, the electoral college, the U.S. Senate, and decennial redistricting.
Read MoreTruth, Racial Healing, and Transformation
Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation "I believe that truth and reconciliation are sequential. You have to tell the truth first. You have to create a consciousness around the truth before you have any hopes of reconciliation. And reconciliation may not come, but truth must come. That’s the condition." – Bryan Stevenson Racial inequality is rooted […]
Read MoreMarking the Centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment
The American Constitution Society is pleased to present our 2020 Program Guide and Speakers List for ACS chapters to use in planning events: Marking the Centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment This year marks the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s ratification, an occasion on which to honor the hard work and steadfast commitment that went […]
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