John Adams and Thomas Jefferson – An American Dialogue
Date: Nov 5, 2024 9:00 a.m. – 12:35 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, and Online
Member Price: $17.00
Non-Member Price: $209.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: For All Attorneys
Earn up to 4 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Donald Scarinci, Esq.
- Scarinci & Hollenbeck LLC, Little Falls
Presenters
- Peyton Dixon
- Actor-Historian
- Steve Edenbo
- Actor-Historian
Does this presidential election make you nostalgic for when civil discourse was … civil?
On Nov. 5, step out of the voting booth and into the past as we present John Adams and Thomas Jefferson - An American Dialogue. Join two talented performers and impersonators from the American Historical Theatre for an interchange on the fundamental underpinnings in our legal system, including natural rights, liberty, equality, the roles and powers of legislatures and the judiciary.
Adams and Jefferson – our second and third presidents, signers of the Declaration of Independence, diplomats and statesmen, friends and rivals, and founding fathers – died on the same day, July 4, 1826, on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Time and history brought together these two vastly different men – Adams the New Englander, federalist and advocate and Jefferson the Virginian, classical Republican and writer – to help create some the fundamental liberties we enjoy today. Both were lawyers, both were political. They each had strong opinions and often disagreed. Yet, they differed as rational friends.
They were not perfect, but their legal and political legacies can be seen every day in courtrooms across the country. Their timeless words echo through the generations. As a nation, we continue to strive for the ideals they espoused as they “came to embody the American dialogue,” according to the historian Joseph Ellis.
That dialogue – about what freedom means and the role of government – continues to this day and is the main pillar of our legal system. It also defines who we are as nation. We live in their vision and continually seek to understand it, both for ourselves and for those who will come after us.
Earn 4.0 CLE credits at this informative, historical and entertaining seminar.
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