ORONO, Maine, Sept. 11 -- University of Maine issued the following news release:
In recognition of Constitution Day on Thursday, Sept. 17, the University of Maine will host a free lecture exploring the significance of the American Founding at 3:30 p.m. in Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall.
During "Stop Calling America An Experiment, "Gregory M. Collins, lecturer in the Program on Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale University, will discuss how viewing the nation as an "experiment" and relying on the "American experiment" rhetoric distorts political psychology. He'll describe why the American Founding should be considered an inheritance, deriving its political and moral principles from time-tested customs, rituals and institutions embed...