Constituting America: Informing Americans About the Importance of the Constitution

In honor of Constitution Day this September 17, 2011, Constituting America will begin a 90-day analysis of the U.S. constitution with scholars and citizens throughout the country.
The nonprofit’s community of scholars will be available for media interviews, analysis and commentary in an effort to “spark a national discussion surrounding the importance of the Constitution in contemporary civic life,” says founder Janine Turner.
“The mission of Constituting American is to engage America’s adults and students in learning about the Constitution and America’s founding principles,” says Turner. It’s doing so by hosting a contest called “We The People 9.17 Contest,” a road trip across the U.S., and a series of blogs that discuss the constitution from varying points of view.
The participating scholars include:

• David Addington
  Vice President for Domestic and Economic Policy
  The Heritage Foundation
• Steven H. Aden, Esq.
  Senior Counsel
  Alliance Defense Fund
• W. B. Allen
  Dean Emeritus James Madison College
  Emeritus Professor of Political Science
  Michigan State University
• John S. Baker
  Professor of Law Emeritus
  Louisiana State University Law School
• Andrew Baskin
  Legal Assistant and Researcher
  The Constitutional Sources Project
• James D. Best
  Author, Tempest at Dawn 
• David J. Bobb, Ph.D.
  Director and Lecturer in Politics, Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship
  Hillsdale College
• Justin Butterfield
  Constitutional Attorney, Liberty Institute
• Robert Chapman-Smith
  Instructional Design Associate, Bill of Rights Institute
• Horace Cooper
  Legal Commentator and Senior Fellow, The Heartland Institute
• Carol Crossed
  Owner and President
  Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum
• Cynthia Dunbar
  Asst. Prof. of Law
  Liberty University School of Law
• William Duncan
  Director, Marriage Law Foundation
• Scot Faulkner
  Executive Director
  The Dreyfuss Initiative
• Colin Hanna
  President, Let Freedom Ring
• Allison Hayward
  Vice President of Policy, Center for Competitive Politics
• Hadley Heath
  Senior Policy Analyst, Independent Women’s Forum
• Troy Kickler, Ph.D.
  Founding Director, North Carolina History Project
• Joerg W. Knipprath
  Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
• David B. Kopel
  Research Director, Independence Institute
  Adjunct Professor of Advanced Constitutional Law, Denver University, Sturm College of Law
• Marc Lampkin
  Quinn Gillespie and Associates
• Andrew Langer
  President
  The Institute for Liberty
• Gary McCaleb
  Senior Counsel
  Alliance Defense Fund
• Dan Morenoff
  Attorney
• Prof. Will Morrisey
  Hillsdale College
• Joe Postell
  Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado – Colorado Springs
• Jeff Reed
  Former Constitutional Law Professor, Western Kentucky University
• Professor Charles Rice
  Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Notre Dame
• Judge Jim Rogan
  Superior Court of California
• Tara Ross
  Author, Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College
• Dr. Charles K. Rowley
  Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University and General Director of The Locke Institute
• George Schrader
  Student of Political Science, Hillsdale College
• Prof. Kyle Scott
  Department of Political Science
  University of Houston
• Mr. Kelly Shackelford
  President and CEO of Liberty Institute
• Julia Shaw
  Research Associate and Program Manager
  B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies
• Lawrence J. Spiwak
  President, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies
• W. David Stedman
  Editor, Our Ageless Constitution
• Nathaniel Stewart
  Attorney, Paul S. Teller, Ph.D.
  Executive Director of the Republican Study Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives
• Kevin Theriot
  Senior Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund

For more information about Constituting America, visit www.constitutingamerica.org.