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Jamal Greene Reconsiders the American Founding at 2026 Montgomery Foundation Lecture
May 4, 2026
At ºÚÈË̽»¨â€™s 2026 Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Foundation Lecture, Columbia Law Professor Jamal Greene offered a sweeping challenge to one of the country’s most enduring constitutional myths: that the United States became a true republic in 1787 and that later generations have merely been tasked with preserving it.
It did not, Greene argued.
