{"id":773,"date":"2016-02-17T19:53:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/events-to-mark-celebrate-constitution-day\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:52:11","slug":"events-to-mark-celebrate-constitution-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/events-to-mark-celebrate-constitution-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Events to mark, celebrate Constitution Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEPTEMBER 17, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Today is Constitution Day, a celebration of one of America\u2019s most-treasured founding documents.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the occasion, the university is hosting two lectures that will help students better understand the law.<\/p>\n<p>Political Science professors Donald Aiesi , Teresa Cosby and President Rod Smolla will examine the Supreme Court\u2019s Ruling on the Affordable Care Act in a panel discussion titled \u201cObamacare is Constitutional: Why?\u201d. The event, to be held 4:30-5:30 p.m. in Johns Hall 101, will be moderated by political science professor Brent Nelsen.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Kevin Gutzman, a professor at Western Connecticut State University, will discuss James Madison\u2019s role in the drafting of the Constitution in a 7 p.m. lecture in room 116 of the Lay Physical Activities Center. \u00a0The professor is the author of the book <em>Who killed the Constitution? <\/em>His latest work, <em>James Madison and the Making of America<\/em> has just been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEPTEMBER 17, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Today is Constitution Day, a celebration of one of America\u2019s most-treasured founding documents. To mark the occasion, the university is hosting two lectures that will help students better understand the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}