John Adams and Thomas Jefferson – An American Dialogue
Date: Feb 18, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 12:35 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online
Member Price: $177.00
Non-Member Price: $209.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: For All Attorneys
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Keynote
Moderator
- Donald Scarinci, Esq.
- Scarinci & Hollenbeck LLC, Little Falls
Presenters
- Peyton Dixon
- Actor-Historian
- Steve Edenbo
- Actor-Historian
*Steve Edenbo appears courtesy of the American Historical Theatre
The New Jersey Law Center will welcome the return of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson for a special program on the fundamental underpinnings of our legal system, including natural rights, liberty, equality, the roles and powers of legislatures and the Judiciary. The program will feature actors Peyton Dixon (Adams) and Steve Edenbo (Jefferson) from the American Historical Theatre for a wide-ranging discussion moderated by Donald Scarinci, one of New Jersey’s top legal experts.
Adams and Jefferson, our second and third p residents, signers of the Declaration of Independence, diplomats and statesmen, friends and rivals, and Founding F athers, died on the same day, July 4 , 1826, on the 50th anniversary of the birth of the United States. Time and history brought these two totally different men together to help create some the fundamental liberties we enjoy today. Both were lawyers, both were political. They each had strong opinions and they often disagreed , yet they differed as rational friends.
They were not perfect men, but their legal and political legacies can be seen every day in courtrooms across the country. Their timeless words echo through the generations, and as a nation we continue to try to live up to the ideals they espoused. Historian Joseph Ellis wrote that they “came to embody the American dialogue.”
That dialogue about what freedom means and what role government should or shouldn’t play in the lives of its citizens continues to this day and is the main pillar of our legal system. It also defines who we are as a nation. We live in their vision and continually seek to understand it - both for ourselves and for those who will come after us.
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