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American founding and liberty

From: The Gibbons Institute (@GibbonsCUA)

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS: The Gibbons Institute is co-sponsoring @ActonInstitute 's Spirit of '76 Conference, on the American Founding and the enduring ideas of liberty, virtue, and human flourishing. Submit proposals on these themes by May 15, 2026. https://t.co/EnElb1kkHJ

Deadline: May 15, 2026Detected Apr 21

Suggested angles

The Spirit of '76 Conference's focus on virtue alongside liberty offers a chance to explore how the Founders understood moral character as foundational to self-governance—a framework increasingly relevant to contemporary debates about rights without responsibilities.

Proposing a paper that connects the Acton Institute's religious liberty emphasis with the American Founding allows you to examine how Founders balanced faith-based convictions with secular governance, addressing modern tensions between conscience protections and pluralistic society.

The conference's partnership between Gibbons Institute and Acton Institute creates an opening to present research on how institutional and individual flourishing were conceived as interdependent by the Founders, rather than competing values.

Propose a paper examining how the Founders' concept of human flourishing depended on both religious liberty protections and civic virtue—positioning your work at the intersection of both sponsoring organizations' focuses.