{"id":292857,"date":"2026-09-24T08:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292857\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:54:17","slug":"constitution-day-lecture-explores-americas-constitutional-visions-york-college-city-university-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292857\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitution Day Lecture Explores America&#8217;s Constitutional Visions &#8211; York College \/ City University of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"block image align right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-1920-364f4010dc0e5aca7ecd0ce9b744e88f.webp\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"responsive\"  fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Dr. Anthony Sparacino\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"documentDescription\">York College marked Constitution Day on September 17 with a lecture exploring America\u2019s competing constitutional traditions and the search for common ground.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Dr. Anthony Sparacino, professor of Political Science, the event featured Dr. Rogers M. Smith, distinguished emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania, as keynote speaker. Sponsored by a grant from the Jack Miller Center, the lecture, \u201cAmerica\u2019s Conflicting Constitutional Visions: The Quest for Common Ground,\u201d examined constitutional law, American political thought, citizenship, race, ethnicity, and gender.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History for his 1997 book Civic Ideals: Conflicting Citizenship in U.S. History, discussed traditionalist American constitutionalism and significant constitutional amendments before and during the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cDr. Smith\u2019s lecture asked us to think of the Reconstruction era, America\u2019s \u2018second founding,\u2019 can provide a means of alleviating \u201ctoday\u2019s heightened political divide,\u201d Sparacino said.<\/p>\n<p>Sep 23, 2026 2:54 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"York College marked Constitution Day on September 17 with a lecture exploring America\u2019s competing constitutional traditions and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-292857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}