“The Fall and the Founders: Politics, Prudence and the Judiciary in a Democratic Republic”

“If men were angels,” wrote James Madison in Federalist 51,  “no government would be necessary.” Well, men aren’t angels, and neither are their governments. And a republic lacking in virtue is a republic that’s doomed.
Clarke Forsythe will consider how prudence was applied at the Founding, more recently by President Reagan in ending the Cold War, and, currently, how it should be applied by the pro-life movement in the emerging battle over President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.